So Long Marianne

Leonard Cohen -  So Long Marianne

Key: A

Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ61su9H5RU  (but also many others)
Lyrics: lyricskeeper.de/de/leonard-cohen/so-long-marianne.html
Music score: www.musicnotes.com  (not free)


Quite lively when compared with some of his usual dirges, 
but I prefer his younger voice. [RIP]




4    4 4  4 4  4   5   6    6  6   6   -5  5 -4 -4
Come o-ve-r to the win-dow, my lit-tle dar - ling,

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I'd like to try to read your palm

-9 -9  -9 -9    -9 -9 -9   -9 8   -8 -8  7  7
I used to think I was some - kind of gyp-sy boy

8  8    7 8   7   8    7  -8    -8
Be-fore I let you take me home..... 


Chorus: 

-8   8  8    8  -8 7  7  8    8    7    8  -8 7   7
Now, so long Ma-ri-anne, it's time that we be-gan -

8  -8    7  -7   -6  6   -5   5    -4 -4  5   -4  5  4   4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh a  -  bout it all a-  gain





Well, you know that I love to live with you,
But you make me forget so very much
I forget to pray for the angel
And then the angels forget to pray for us


Chorus

We met when we were almost young
Deep in the green lilac park
You held on to me like I was a crucifix
As we went kneeling through the dark

Chorus

Your letters say that you are beside me now
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
Is fastening my ankle to a stone

Chorus

For now I need your hidden love
I'm cold as a new razor blade
You left when I told you I was curious
I never said that I was brave

Chorus

O you are really such a pretty one
I see you've gone and changed your name again
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
To wash my eyelids in the rain

Chorus