Instructions: CAPO 5
strum each of the x's
(*) indicates the chord should be played in this manner:
AmAm Piano Chord 
            DmDm Piano Chord 

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,
BbBb Piano Chord 
              DmDm Piano Chord 

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)

BmBm Piano Chord 
                       DD Piano Chord 

I know you need your sleep now,
AA Piano Chord 

I know your life's been hard.
BmBm Piano Chord 
                   DD Piano Chord 

But many men are falling,
AA Piano Chord 

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,
EE Piano Chord 
                       AA Piano Chord 

working for the Yankee Dollar.

EE Piano Chord 
 EE Piano Chord 
 EE Piano Chord 
 EE Piano Chord 

BmBm Piano Chord 

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,...