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OneOfUsCannotBeWrong.chopro
Download# Adi.Heindl@chemie.uni-regensburg.de {t:One of us cannot be wrong} {st:Leonard Cohen} #The song appears on the CD "Songs of Leonard Cohen" #and on the newest live album "Leonard Cohen: Live In Concert" {sot} Accompaniment Pattern: written for A Major E----------------------------|----------------------------| B-----------2---------2------|-----------2---------2------| 3/4 G-----------2---------2------|-----------2---------2------| D------2---------2---------2-|------2---------2---------2-| A-0--------------------------|-0--------------------------| E----------------------------|----------------------------| {eot} [A] [A] [A] [A] I[A] lit a thin green [Bm]candle[Bm] [D]to make you [D]jealous of m[A]e[A] but the [A]room just filled [A]up with mos[Bm]quitoes[Bm] they h[D]eard that my [D]body was fr[E]ee.[E] Then I[F#m] took the d[F#m]ust of a [C#m]long sleepless [C#m]night and I [D]put it in [D]your little s[A]hoe[A] and t[Bm]hen I con[Bm]fess that I [G]tortured the [G]dress that you w[Bm]ore for the w[A]orld to look t[G]hrough.[G] [A] [A] [A] [A] I[A] showed my heart to the d[Bm]octor[Bm] [D]he said I'd [D]just have to [A]quit[A] then h[A]e wrote him[A]self a per[Bm]scription [Bm] and [D]your name was[D] mentioned in i[E]t.[E] Then [F#m]he locked [F#m]himself in a [C#m]library [C#m]shelf with the [D]details [D]of our honey[A]moon[A] and I [Bm]hear from the [Bm]nurse that he's [G]gotten much [G]worse and his [Bm]practice is [A]all in a [G]ruin.[G] [A] [A] [A] [A] I[A] heard of a saint who had [Bm]loved yo[Bm]u So I [D]studied all [D]night in his [A]school[A] he [A]taught that[A] the duty of [Bm]lovers [Bm] is to [D]tarnish [D]the golden [E]rule.[E] And just [F#m]when I was s[F#m]ure [C#m][C#m] that his [C#m]teachings were [C#m]pure he d[Bm]rowned him[Bm]self in the [A]pool [A] his [Bm]body is gone [Bm]but back [G]here on the [G]lawn his [Bm]spirit con[A]tinues to [G]drool.[G] [A] [A] [A] [A] A[A]n Eskimo showed me a [Bm]movie [Bm] [D]he'd recentl[D]y taken of [A]you[A] the [A]poor man co[A]uld hardly stop [Bm]shivering,[Bm] his [D]lips and his [D]fingers were bl[E]ue.[E] I supp[F#m]ose that h[F#m]e froze when the [C#m]wind took your [C#m]clothes and I [D]guess he just [D]never got [A]warm but you [Bm]stand there so [Bm]nice in your [G]blizzard of [G]ice o, please [Bm]let me come [A]into the s[G]torm.[G]