Field Commander Cohen

tabbed by Tullia Dymarz tdymarz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

Instructions: CAPO 5

strum each of the x's

(*) indicates the chord should be played in this manner:

e-----0---0--|-----1---1--

b-----1---1--|-----3---3--

g---2---2---2|---2---2---2

d------------|-0----------

a-0----------|------------

E------------|------------

Field Commander Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony

C x x x x x x x

C x x x x x x x G x x x Bb x x x

Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.

F x x x x x x x

Wounded in the line of duty,

Dm x x x x x x x C x x x Gm x x x

parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,

Bb x x x x x x x F x x x Cm x x x

urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.

Bb x x x Dm

Leave it all and like a man,

come back to nothing special,

*Am *Am

such as waiting rooms and ticket lines,

*Dm *Am

silver bullet suicides,

*Dm *Am

and messianic ocean tides,

*Dm *Am

and racial roller-coaster rides

*Bb *A

and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.

E E E E (just the bottom note)

I know you need your sleep now,

I know your life's been hard.

But many men are falling,

where you promised to stand guard.

C x x x x x x x x x G x x x Bb x x x

I never asked but I heard you cast your lot along with the poor.

F x x x x x x x

But then I overheard your prayer,

Dm x x x x x x x

that you be this and nothing more

C x x x Gm x x x Bb x x x

than just some grateful faithful woman's favourite singing

x x x x

millionaire,

F x x x Cm x x x Bb x x x Dm

the patron Saint of envy and the grocer of despair,

working for the Yankee Dollar.

 

I know you need your sleep now ...

C x x x x x x x G x x x Bb x x x

Ah, lover come and lie with me, if my lover is who you are,

F x x x x x x x Dm x x x x x x x

and be your sweetest self awhile until I ask for more, my child.

C x x x Gm x x x Bb x x x x x x x

Then let the other selves be wrong, yeah, let them manifest and come

F x x x Cm x x x

till every taste is on the tongue,

Bb x x x Dm x x x

till love is pierced and love is hung,

Bb x x x Dm x x x

and every kind of freedom done, then

*Am *F *Am *F *Am *F

oh my love, oh my love, oh my love,...