Leonard Cohen — Tom D
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[A] [E]
Now the Captain called me to his bed
[D] [A]
He fumbled for my hand
[D] [A]
Take these silver bars, he said
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I'm giving you command.
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Command of what, there's no one here
[D] [A]
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, 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.
[A] [A7]
May Christ have mercy on your soul
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For making such a joke
[E]
Amid these hearts that burn like coal
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And the flesh that rose like smoke.
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I know that you have suffered, lad
[D] [A]
But suffer this awhile
[D] [A]
Whatever makes a soldier sad
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Will make a killer smile.
[A] [A7]
I'm leaving, Captain, I've got to go
[D] [A]
There's blood upon your hand
[E]
But tell me, Captain, if you know
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Of a decent place to stand.
[A] [E]
There is no decent place to stand
[D] [A]
In a massacre
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But if a woman take your hand
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Then go and stand with her.
[A] [A7]
I left a wife in Tennessee
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And a baby in Saigon
[E]
I risked my life but not to hear
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Some country-western song.
[A] [E]
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 I've been thinking of
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So come and stand with me.
[A] [A7]
Your standing days are done, I cried,
[D] [A]
You'll rally me no more
[E]
I don't even know what side
[D] [A]
We fought on, or what for.
[A] [E]
I'm on the side that's always lost
[D] [A]
Against the side of Heaven
[D] [A]
I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
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Against the side of Seven
[A] [A7]
And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
[D] [A]
And some of it was true
[E]
But there wasn't any burden left
[D] [A]
So I'm laying it on you.
[A] [E]
Now the Captain he was dying
[D] [A]
But the Captain wasn't hurt
[D] [A]
The silver bars were in my hand
[E] [A]
I pinned them to my shirt