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subject: c/leonard_cohen/partisan.tab



Leonard Cohen: The Partisan (La Complainte du Partisan)

               (French text: Bernard, Music: Anna Marly,

                English text: Hy Saret)

               from the CD's "Songs from a room", "Greatest Hits" and

               "Heart Housed in a Thorn Bush" (Live at Montreux, 1984)





the pattern I play I've learned from a friend (erwin). Its easier to play,

but may be there is a certain loss of quality.



 erwins pattern



  Am                          C*               E*

e:----------0---------------|-----------0---|-----------0--|

B:-------1-----1------------|--------1------|--------0-----|

G:----2-----------2-----2---|-----0---------|-----1--------|

D:-------------------2------|---------------|--------------|

A:-0------------------------|--3------------|--------------|

E:--------------------------|---------------|--0-----------|

   p  i  m  a  m  i  p  i      p  i  m  a      p  i  m  a





The pattern is played two times per bar (indicated by / in first verse).

In the first and second line of every verse there are three chords per bar

and i play the pattern C* and E*.



Cohen plays ?don't really know?



   Am                                  C*                    E*

e:-------------------------0----------|--------------------|-------------------|

B:-------1--------1-----1-----------1-|--------1--------1--|--------0--------0-|

G:----2--------2-----2-----------2----|-----0--------0-----|-----1--------1----|

D:----------2-----------------2-------|-----------2--------|-----------2-------|

A:-0----------------------------------|--3-----------------|--2----------------|

E:------------------------------------|--------------------|-------------------|

   p  i  m  p  i  m  p  i  m  p  i  m    etc.



 There are twentyfour notes (triplets) per bar, to much for my fingers.





Am  Am  / Am   Am



         /C*       E*        Am

When they poured a-cross the border

     /C*        E*     Am

I was cautioned to sur-render,

      /C         G   /G (2/4)

this I could not do;

F           F          /C       E  /Am  Am/Am  Am

  I took my gun and van-ished.



       C*         E*      Am

I have changed my name so often,

     C*      E*       Am

I've lost my wife and children

           C        G       G

but I have many fri-ends,

F           F                C    E /Am  Am/Am Am

   and some of them are with me.



       C*    E*      Am

An old woman gave us shelter,

        C*     E*     Am

kept us hidden in the garret,

         C        G      G

then the soldiers came;

F            F              C     E Am Am/Am Am

    she died without a whis-per.





           C*       E*      Am

There were three of us this morning              Hier encor nous ?tions troi

        C*   E*       Am

I'm the only one this evening                    Il ne reste plu que moi

      C       G     G

but I must go on;                                Et je tourne en rond

F            F                C   E Am Am/Am Am

  the fron-tiers are my pri-son.                 Dans la prison des frontieres



        C*        E*      Am

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,               La vent passe sur les tombles

            C*         E*      Am

through the graves the wind is blowing,          La libert? reviendra

        C         G        G

freedom soon will come;                          Oh nous oubliera!

F              F                C  E /Am Am/Am Am

  then we'll come from the shad-ows.             Nous retrerons dans l'ombre.



         C*      E*          Am

Les Alle-mands ?-taient chez moi,      [The Germans were at my home

        C*       E*    Am

ons m'a dit: "Re-signe toi,"            They said, "Sign yourself,"

        C        G    G

mais je n'ai pas peur;                      But I am not afraid

F       F             C   E /Am Am/Am Am

   j'ai repris mon ?r-me.                  I have retaken my weapon.



          C*      E       Am

J'ai chan-g? cent fois de nom,         I have changed names a hundred times

         C*       E*    Am

j'ai per-du femme et en-fants            I have lost wife and children

          C        G       G

mais j'ai tant d'a-mis;                     But I have so many friends

F                     C   E Am Am/Am Am

    j'ai la France en-ti?re.                  I have all of France



         C*         E*     Am

Un vieil homme dans un gre-nier               An old man, in an attic

        C*        E*   Am

pour la nuit nous a ca-ch?s,                  Hid us for the night

         C           G     G

les Alle-mands l'ont prisent;                     The Germans captured him

F         F                C  E Am Am/Am Am

   il est mort sans surpri-se.                  He died without surprise.]





        C*        E*      Am

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,

            C*         E*      Am

through the graves the wind is blowing,

        C         G        G

freedom soon will come;

F              F                  C      E   Am Am/Am Am (appregio)

    then we'll come from the shad-ows.







Improvements welcome! Adi.Heindl@chemie.uni-regensburg.de