The Captain chords by Leonard Cohen
Verse 1
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Now the Captain
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called me to his bed
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He fumbled for my hand
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"Take these silver bars," he said
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"I'm giving you command."
"Command of what,
there's no one here
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There's only you and me
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All the rest are dead or in retreat
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Or with the enemy."
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"Complain, complain,
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that's all you've done
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Ever since we lost
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If it's not the Crucifixion
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Then it's the Holocaust."
"May Christ have mercy on your soul
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For making such a joke
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Amid these hearts that burn like coal
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And the flesh that rose like smoke."
Verse 2
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"I know that you have suffered, lad,
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But suffer this awhile:
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Whatever makes a soldier sad
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Will make a killer smile."
"I'm leaving, Captain, I must go
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There's blood upon your hand
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But tell me, Captain, if you know
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Of a decent place to stand."
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Verse 3
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"There is no decent place to stand
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In a massacre;
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But if a woman take your hand
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Go and stand with her."
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"I left a wife in Tennessee
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And a baby in Saigon
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I risked my life, but not to hear
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Some country-western song."
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song."
Verse 4
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"Ah but if you cannot raise your love
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To a very high degree,
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Then you're just the man
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I've been thinking of
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So come and stand with me."
"Your standing days are
done," I cried,
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"You'll rally me no more.
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I don't even know what side
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We fought on, or what for."
Verse 5
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"I'm on the side that's always lost
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Against the side of Heaven
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I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
tossed
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Against the side of Seven.
And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
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And some of it was true
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But there wasn't any burden left
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So I'm laying it on you."
Verse 6
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Now the Captain he was dying
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But the Captain wasn't hurt
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The silver bars were in my hand
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I pinned them to my shirt.
Outro 1
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The Captain
Leonard Cohen
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