{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1481786,"song":"Death Of A Ladies Man","artist":"Leonard Cohen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1481786-death-of-a-ladies-man-chords-by-leonard-cohen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1481786?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":29,"content":"Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man (1977)\r\nChords 30/11-2015 by Jon Malmin (jogusmal@hotmail.com)\r\nTuning: Standard E (Capo 3rd fret)\r\n\r\nStrumming pattern (dots denote sixteenth notes):\r\n[1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .]\r\n[D   D   D   D U D   D   D   D U]\r\n\r\n\r\nIntro: [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]E7[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]A7[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch] (x2)\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 1:\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAh the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"I never even knew how much I wanted you,\" she said.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nHis muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]A7[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"Oh baby, I have come too late.\" She knelt beside his feet.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 2:\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]E7[/ch]\r\n\"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]A7[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAnd all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe took unto herself most everything her lover lost[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nBridge 1:\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch] \r\n........Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nwith a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nShe beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]Em/D#[/ch]               [ch]Em/D[/ch]         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nShe said, \"I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nInterlude:  [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 3:\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nHe offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]A7[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe promised her protection for the issue of her womb[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]E7[/ch]             \r\nShe moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]A7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon[/tab]\r\n\r\nPiano solo backing:\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]E7[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]A7[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  (x2)\r\n[ch]D[/ch] (for 2 bars)\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 4:\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nShe took his much admired oriental frame of mind[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]A7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nShe took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nInterlude: [ch]D[/ch] (for 2 bars)\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse 5:\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nHe tried to make a final stand beside the railway track[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe said, \"The art of longing's over and it's never coming back.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nShe took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]A7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nBridge 2:\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                     \r\n........Now the last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA woman's education but he's not a woman yet[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]Em/D#[/ch]          [ch]Em/D[/ch]            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nWho gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nLast verse:\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nSo the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed?[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]E7[/ch] \r\nIt's like our visit to the moon or to that other star[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nInterlude: \r\n[ch]D[/ch]  (for 3 bars)\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]E7[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]A7[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]E7[/ch] \r\nIt's like our visit to the moon or to that other star[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nInterlude:\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] (Strum it fast this time, there is no set time signature. Last time the next \r\npart is repeated, there is only keyboard and no guitar)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nIt's like our visit to the moon or to that other star[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]Chord shape suggestions for the [ch]Em[/ch]-[ch]Em/D#[/ch]-[ch]Em/D[/ch] part:\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]:           [ch]Em/D#[/ch]:        [ch]Em/D[/ch]:\r\nx-x-2-0-0-0   x-x-1-0-0-0   x-x-0-0-0-0[/tab]\r\n[tab]OR:           OR:           OR:\r\nx-7-5-0-0-0   x-6-5-0-0-0   x-5-5-0-0-0[/tab]","plain_text":"Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man (1977)\nChords 30/11-2015 by Jon Malmin (jogusmal@hotmail.com)\nTuning: Standard E (Capo 3rd fret)\n\nStrumming pattern (dots denote sixteenth notes):\n[1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .]\n[D   D   D   D U D   D   D   D U]\n\n\nIntro: D  E7  Em  A7  G  D (x2)\n\n\nVerse 1:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 2:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge 1:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterlude:  D\n\n\nVerse 3:\n\n\n\n\n\nPiano solo backing:\nD  E7  Em  A7  G  D  (x2)\nD (for 2 bars)\n\n\nVerse 4:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterlude: D (for 2 bars)\n\n\nVerse 5:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge 2:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLast verse:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterlude: \nD  (for 3 bars)\nD  E7  Em  A7  G  D\n\n\n\n\n\nInterlude:","chords":["E","D","E7","Em","A7","G","Bm","F#m","Em/D#","Em/D","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}