Crd

Am Dm 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, Bb Dm 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) Bm D I know you need your sleep now, A I know your life's been hard. Bm D But many men are falling, A 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, E A working for the Yankee Dollar. E E E E Bm 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,...