One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong Chords

by Leonard Cohen
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
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Chords

A
Bm
D
E
F#m
C#m
G

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Accompaniment Pattern: written for A Major
 
   3/4
e|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------2-----2-----|-------2-----2-----|
G|-------2-----2-----|-------2-----2-----|
D|----2-----2-----2--|----2-----2-----2--|
A|-0-----------------|-0-----------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
 
 
[Intro]
A   A   A   A
 
[Verse 1]
A       A           Bm     Bm
I lit a thin green candle
 D           D         A   A
to make you jealous of me
         A               A           Bm      Bm
but the room just filled up with mosquitoes
      D             D        E    E
they heard that my body was free
      F#m        F#m       C#m            C#m
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
       D         D            A   A
and I put it in your little shoe
     Bm        Bm          G             G
and then I confess that I tortured the dress
          Bm           A             G       G
that you wore for the world to look through
 
A   A   A   A
 
 
[Verse 2]
  A          A            Bm     Bm
I showed my heart to the doctor
 D           D            A    A
he said I'd just have to quit
     A            A          Bm       Bm
then he wrote himself a perscription
     D             D           E   E
and your name was mentioned in it
      F#m          F#m       C#m     C#m
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
          D          D        A    A
with the details of our honeymoon
       Bm            Bm
and I hear from the nurse
           G           G
that he's gotten much worse
         Bm          A        G    G
and his practice is all in a ruin
 
A   A   A   A
 
 
[Verse 3]
 A            A             Bm        Bm
I heard of a saint who had loved you
      D           D            A      A
So I studied all night in his school
    A               A       Bm     Bm
he taught that the duty of lovers
       D           D      E    E
is to tarnish the golden rule
          F#m        F#m
And just when I was sure
          C#m            C#m
that his teachings were pure
    D          D           A    A
he drowned himself in the pool
     Bm      Bm            G           G
his body is gone but back here on the lawn
     Bm       A          G     G
his spirit continues to drool
 
A   A   A   A
 
 
[Verse 4]
    A      A           Bm    Bm
An Eskimo showed me a movie
      D        D        A   A
he'd recently taken of you
     A              A           Bm        Bm
the poor man could hardly stop shivering,
     D            D            E    E
his lips and his fingers were blue
     F#m           F#m
I suppose that he froze
          C#m            C#m
when the wind took your clothes
       D             D         A    A
and I guess he just never got warm
         Bm             Bm           G           G
but you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice
            Bm          A        G     G
oh, please let me come into the storm
 
A   A   A   A
 
 
[Whistle Verse 1]
A   A   Bm  Bm
D   D   A   A
A   A   Bm  Bm
D   D   E   E
F#m  F#m  C#m  C#m
D   D   A   A
Bm  Bm  G   G
Bm  A   G   G
 
A   A   A   A
 
 
[Whistle Verse 2]
A   A   Bm  Bm
D   D   A   A
A   A   Bm  Bm
D
 
(fade out)
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One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong – Leonard Cohen
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