{"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":1786764,"song":"The Captain","artist":"Leonard Cohen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1786764-the-captain-chords-by-leonard-cohen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1786764?type=chord","rating":4.86186,"votes":31,"content":"From Leonard Cohen's 1984 album 'Various Positions'\r\nEnjoy!\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNow the Captain called me to his bed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe fumbled for my hand[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTake these silver bars, he said[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm giving you command.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nCommand of what, there's no one here[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere's only you and me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAll the rest are dead or in retreat[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOr with the enemy.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nComplain, complain, that's all you've done[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nEver since we lost[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch] \r\nIf it's not the Crucifixion[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen it's the Holocaust.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nMay Christ have mercy on your soul[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFor making such a joke[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAmid these hearts that burn like coal[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the flesh that rose like smoke.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI know that you have suffered, lad[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut suffer this awhile[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhatever makes a soldier sad[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWill make a killer smile.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nI'm leaving, Captain, I've got to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere's blood upon your hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]        \r\nBut tell me, Captain, if you know[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOf a decent place to stand.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere is no decent place to stand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch] \r\nIn a massacre[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut if a woman take your hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen go and stand with her.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nI left a wife in Tennessee[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd a baby in Saigon[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]           \r\nI risked my life but not to hear[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSome country-western song.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAh, but if you cannot raise your love[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo a very high degree[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]           \r\nThen you're just the man I've been thinking of[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo come and stand with me.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYour standing days are done, I cried,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou'll rally me no more[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI don't even know what side[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe fought on, or what for.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm on the side that's always lost[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAgainst the side of Heaven[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAgainst the side of Seven[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd I've read the Bill of Human Rights[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd some of it was true[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch] \r\nBut there wasn't any burden left[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo I'm laying it on you.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNow the Captain he was dying[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut the Captain wasn't hurt[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe silver bars were in my hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI pinned them to my shirt[/tab]","plain_text":"From Leonard Cohen's 1984 album 'Various Positions'\nEnjoy!","chords":["A","E","D","A7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}