One of Us Cannot Be Wrong Chords by Leonard Cohen
- Key: Gm
- BPM: 133
- Capo: no capo
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ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG CHORDS
[Intro] Gm Eb Gm F Eb F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Gm I lit a thin green candle Bb F To make you jealous of me Gm But the room just filled up with mosquitoes Bb C They heard that my body was free Dm Am Am7 Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night Bb F And ■ I put it in your little shoe Gm Eb And then I confess that I tortured the dress Gm F Eb F That you wore for the world to look through ■ Gm I showed my heart to the doctor Bb F He said I'd just have to quit Dm F Gm ■ Then he wrote himself a prescription [Chorus] Bb C And your name was mentioned in it Dm Am Then he locked himself in a library shelf Bb F With the details of our honeymoon Gm Eb And I hear from the nurse that he's ■ gotten much worse [Verse] Gm F Eb F And his practice is all in a ruin ■ Gm I heard of a saint who had loved you Bb F So I studied all night in his school Gm He taught that the duty of lovers Bb C Is to tarnish the golden rule [Chorus] Dm Am And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure Bb F He ■ drowned himself in the pool Gm Eb His body is gone but back here on the lawn Gm F Eb His spirit continues to drool [Solo] F Dm7 C F Gm Bb F Gm ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Bb C Dm Am Am7 Bb F Gm ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Eb Gm F Eb F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] F Gm An Eskimo showed me a movie Bb F Dm7 He'd recently taken of you ■ F Gm The poor man could hardly stop shivering Bb C His lips and his fingers were blue Dm Am I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes [Chorus] Bb F And I ■ guess he just never got warm Gm Eb But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice Gm F Eb Oh please let me come into the storm [Solo] F Gm7 Gm Bb F Gm7 Bb C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] Dm Am Bb F Gm Eb ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Gm F Eb F ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro] [End]