Sing Another Song Boys
Leonard Cohen
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E: 022100 D: xx0232 C#m: x46654 F#m *: x44675F#m: 244222 "Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and bitter..."Intro: AA E A Asus4 A Ah his fingernails, I see they're brokenD A Asus4 A His ships, they're all on fireBm The moneylender's lovely little daughterA Asus4 A Ah, she's eaten, she's eaten with desireC#m F#m * She spies him through the glassesC#m D A Asus4 A From the pawnshops of her wicked fatherC#m F#m * She hails him with a microphoneC#m D A Asus4 A That some poor singer, just like me, had to leave herBm A Asus4 A She tempts him with a clarinetContinues after the adF#m E She waves a Nazi daggerA E A Asus4 A She finds him lying in a heapE A Asus4 A She wants to be his womanD He says, "Yes, I just might go to sleepA Asus4 A But kindly leave, leave the future, leave it open."Bm He stands where it is steepA Asus4 A Oh I guess he thinks that he's the very first oneC#m F#m * His hand upon his leather belt nowC#m D A Asus4 A Like it was the wheel of some big ocean linerC#m F#m * And she will learn to touch herself so wellC#m D A Asus4 A As all the sails burn down like paperBm A Asus4 A And he has lit the chainF#m E Of his famous cigarilloA E A Asus4 A Ah, they'll never, they'll never ever reach the moonE A Asus4 A At least not the one that we're afterBm It's floating broken on the open sea, look out there, my friendsA And it carries no survivorsC#m F#m * But let's leave these lovers wonderingC#m D A Asus4 A Why they cannot have each otherC#m F#m * And let's sing another song, boysC#m D A Asus4 A This one has grown old and bitterBm La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, laA La, la, la, la, la, la,...Bm La, la, la...A La...Bm ...