Master Song chords by Leonard Cohen
Intro 1
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Gm
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Verse 1
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Gm
I believe that you heard your master sing
Ab
Gm
When I was sick in bed
Ab
Gm
I suppose that he told you everything
Ab
Gm
That I keep locked away in my head
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Cm
Your master took you travelling
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F
Well, at least that's what you said
Bb
Dm
Bb
Dm
And now do you come back to bring
Eb
D
Your prisoner wine and bread?
Gm
Bb
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Verse 2
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Gm
You met him at some temple
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Gm
Where they take your clothes at the door
Ab
Gm
He was just a numberless man in a chair
Ab
Gm
Who'd just come back from the war
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Cm
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
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F
And he hands you the apple core
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Dm
Then he touches your lips
Bb
Dm
now so suddenly bare
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D
Of all the kisses we put on some time before
Gm
Bb
Verse 3
Ab
Gm
And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
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Gm
With a collar of leather and nails
Ab
Gm
And he never once made you explain or talk
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Gm
About all of the little details
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Cm
Such as who had a word and who had a rock
Eb
F
And who had you through the mails
Bb
Dm
Bb
Dm
Now your love is a secret all over the block
Eb
And it never stops,
D
not even when your master fails
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Bb
Verse 4
Ab
Gm
And he took you up in his aeroplane
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Gm
Which he flew without any hands
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Gm
And you cruised above the ribbons of rain
Ab
Gm
That drove the crowd from the stands
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Cm
Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane
Eb
F
And an ape with angel glands
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Bb
Dm
Erased the final wisps of pain
Eb
D
With the music of rubber bands
Gm
Bb
Verse 5
Ab
Gm
And now I hear your master sing
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Gm
You kneel for him to come
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Gm
His body is a golden string
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Gm
That your body is hanging from
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Cm
His body is a golden string
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F
My body has grown numb
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Dm
Bb
Dm
Oh, now you hear your master sing
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D
Your shirt is all undone
Gm
Bb
Verse 6
Ab
Gm
And will you kneel beside this bed
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Gm
That we polished so long ago
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Gm
Before your master chose instead
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Gm
To make my bed of snow?
Ab
Your eyes are wild
Cm
and your knuckles are red
Eb
F
And you're speaking far too low
Bb
Dm
No, I can't make out
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Dm
what your master said
Eb
D
Before he made you go
Gm
Bb
Verse 7
Ab
Gm
And I think you're playing far too rough
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Gm
For a lady who's been to the moon
Ab
Gm
I've lain by this window long enough
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Gm
To get used to an empty room
Ab
And your love is some dust
Cm
in an old man's cuff
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F
Who is tapping his foot to a tune
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Dm
And your thighs are a ruin,
Bb
Dm
you want too much
Eb
D
Let's say you came back sometime too soon
Gm
Bb
Verse 8
Ab
Gm
I loved your master perfectly
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Gm
And I taught him all that he knew
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Gm
He was starving in some deep mystery
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Gm
Like a man who is sure what is true
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Cm
And I sent you to him with my guarantee
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F
I could teach him something new
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Dm
And I taught him how
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Dm
you would long for me
Eb
No matter what he said,
D
no matter what you'd do
Gm
Bb
Verse 9
Ab
Gm
I believe that you heard your master sing
Ab
Gm
While I was sick in bed
Ab
Gm
I'm sure that he told you everything
Ab
Gm
I must keep locked away in my head
Ab
Cm
Your master took you travelling
Eb
F
Well, at least that's what you said
Bb
Dm
Bb
Dm
And now do you come back to bring
Eb
D
Your prisoner wine and bread
Master Song
Leonard Cohen
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