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Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen - Guitar Chords
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This beautiful song is played in Drop D. I have included the chords and picking pattern below. Enjoy!
Chords used:
Am7 : x0201x
F : 3332xx
Dm7 : 0xx211
Em : 2x200x
Bm7 : x2423x
G : 5554xx
C : x3201x
Picking pattern (x2):
Am7 F Dm7 Em
e|--------------------|--------------------|--------1-----1-----|--------------------|
B|--------1-----1-----|--------------------|--------1-----1-----|--------0-----0-----|
G|--------0-----0-----|--------2-----2-----|-----2-----2-----2--|--------0-----0-----|
D|-----2-----2-----2--|--------3-----3-----|--------------------|-----2-----2-----2--|
A|--0-----------------|-----3-----3-----3--|--------------------|--------------------|
D|--------------------|--3-----------------|--0-----------------|--2-----------------|
Bm7 G C
e|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
B|--------3-----3-----|--------------------|--------1-----1-----|
G|--------2-----2-----|--------4-----4-----|--------0-----0-----|
D|-----4-----4-----4--|--------5-----5-----|-----2-----2-----2--|
A|--2-----------------|-----5-----5-----5--|--3-----------------|
D|--------------------|--5-----------------|--------------------|
[Verse 1]
Am7 F
It's four in the morning, the end of December
Dm7 Em
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
Am7 F
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
Dm7 Em
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening
Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7
I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
Am7 G
You're living for nothing now
Am7 G
I hope you're keeping some kind of record
[Chorus]
C G
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
Am7
She said that you gave it to her
Bm7 G
That night that you planned to go clear
F Em
Did you ever go clear?
[Verse 2]
Am7 F
Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Dm7 Em
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
Am7 F
You'd been to the station to meet every train
Dm7 Em
And you came home without Lili Marlene
Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
Am7 G Am7 G
And when she came back she was nobody's wife
[Chorus 2]
C G
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
Am7
One more thin gypsy thief
Bm7 G F Em
Well I see Jane's awake she sends her regards
[Verse 3]
Am7 F
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
Dm7 Em
What can I possibly say?
Am7 F
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
Dm7 Em
I'm glad you stood in my way
Am7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7
If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Am7 G Am7 G
Well, your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free
[Chorus 3]
C G
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
Am7 G
I thought it was there for good so I never tried
C G
And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
Am7
She said that you gave it to her
Bm7 G
That night that you planned to go clear
F Em
Sincerely, L Cohen
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- Closing Time
- Coming Back To You
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
- Diamonds In The Mine
- Dress Rehearsal Rag
- Everybody Knows
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- First We Take Manhattan
- Hallelujah
- Hey Thats No Way To Say Goodbye
- If It Be Your Will
- Im Your Man
- Is This What You Wanted
- Lady Midnight
- Last Years Man
- Lover Lover Lover
- Master Song
- Night Comes On
- One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
- Passing Through
- Seems So Long Ago Nancy
- Sisters Of Mercy
- So Long Marianne
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- Stories Of The Street
- Story Of Isaac
- Suzanne
- Take This Waltz
- The Future
- The Old Revolution
- The Partisan
- The Stranger Song
- Tonight Will Be Fine
- Tower Of Song
- Who By Fire
- Winter Lady
- You Know Who I Am
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