Night Comes On

[fourteentwelve]

Really beautiful Ken! Your Leonard Cohen covers are so wonderful!

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Hi Michelle. Thanks.

[VesperPete]

..always inspiring. Thank you.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Pete.

[jmmquah]

Ken does Leonard Cohen...all is well in the world.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you, James.

[ukeshale]

I know I've said it a thousand times already but you do Cohen so well. Another favourited video

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Shane. Will you be at Hollesley?

[idrnoel]

Another great performance.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Dylan.

[DearOldNutjob]

I am just amazed by these lyrics. Not one misstep that I can see, not one weak moment of settling for something pretty close but not quite right. He makes it look so easy, but I know better. You make it look easy, too, but I'm on to you as well. Favorite for sure!

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Cohen's lyrics are just wonderful aren't they. I still don't understand some of them.

[KenMiddletonMusic]

Thank you, Tony.

[theBradlands]

I really liked the strum pattern Ken.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

D DU DU D D D for a lot of the time. Thanks Brad.

[khrome242]

Very nice! You have such a soothing voice. :-)

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks very much.

[uke5417]

Thanks for this, Ken. There are some terrific lines in it.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Yes, Leonard Cohen at his best.

[RC62]

Well done! I enjoyed this very much.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks very much.

[KYOTOZOOM]

Beautiful done Sir !!

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you.

[UnluckyMum]

Very nice indeed Ken :)

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Caroline.

[Ukenick]

Lovely arrangement and beautifully sung. Excellent.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you, Nick.

[ruth7784]

Hi Ken :-) Even though I know this song, you made me *really* listen to the words, and I feel like I've heard it for the first time. As always, you've performed it like it's your song. Love how you do that, you have a tremendous amount of talent! :-) I had something else to say, but having trouble finding the words, I think I need some coffee haha. Hugs X

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Ruth. Have you remembered what else you were going to say yet?

[JChoneybell]

Very cool Ken.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you, JC.

[BaronK69]

Sweet one Ken! Just had me some Jameson's whiskey and this song goes beautifully with it...

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Have a great weekend.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you.

[weegingayin]

There is just the slightest hint of "Suzanne" chord changes in there. Both songs have a certain sense of worldly weariness about them, and every verse has a thought in them that is a key to another world.

The last verse is particularly poignant... a tired old man going down to the bar, who wants to cross over, but is sent back to the world.

"Death oh' the blessed relief to those that weary ladened mourn"

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Nice quote, Robert. Burns, I believe. Thanks for the detailed, constructive comment.

[UkesterBrown]

You know Ken..... I have had a limited amount of music put into my mind from growing up at my time/place/family. I had to look up Leonard Cohen's music after you played some for us. He really is a poet and you do his music well. You catch what he is telling us all in his stories. Thanks.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

I certainly try to, UB. It's really nice of you to say so though. Thanks.

[waterdog226]

I like this. You do this so superbly. Leonard did not get appointed to be our Governor General. Sigh.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

They didn't choose William Shattner instead, did they? I heard some folks wanted him.

[waterdog226]

@waterdog226 Ha! No, he did not get the task either. A fellow with the last name of Johnston (Johnson?) did. He was the president of the University of Waterloo and he was a law prof. I would have rather liked Leonard Cohen as the GG. I think his speech from the throne would have had a lovely poetic flair.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Never heard of the other guy, I'm afraid. But I can imagine Leonard's speech:

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure

The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor

And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong

You see, you hear these funny voices

When you're the Govenor General

[waterdog226]

@KenMiddletonUkulele The 'other guy' turns out to be the fellow who was the inspiration for the male character in the book 'The Love Story'. It turns out he is, or was a keen hockey player in college. Leonard's acceptance speech is authentic. I always thought that Chief Dan George (remember Little Big Man (the movie with Dustin Hofman many years ago) would have been a classic GG. He could have said to Richard Nixon 'You speak with a forked tongue'. Dan George has passed on.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

He wasn't well-like was he, Nixon?

[waterdog226]

@KenMiddletonUkulele No. He had a way of putting one foot in his mouth, and then finding room for the other one. But who knows...there is always so much 'spin' that goes on.

[okvolleyball]

great job Ken.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Stephen.

[revdrjim]

nice Ken. this cohen kids music just might catch on

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

It just might.

[russbuss415]

very nice Ken! happy friday.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

It certainly is. Thanks Russ.

[krabbers]

i read the tags before i read the info, i thought it was going to be a comparison video , ukuleles being recorded from various positions .

very nice song Ken

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Haha. You are having me on.

[krabbers]

@KenMiddletonUkulele

nope. honestly i did , i was thinking ok when is he gonna move ?

[ruth7784]

@krabbers LOL! That's hilarious! :-) X

[casetone2514]

Lovely rendition, Ken.

Just downloading a few Cohen tracks whilst listening to you

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks Tony. Of my top 10 best songs of all time, 9 are by L Cohen.

[fedecuco]

Wonderful song, thank you very much Master!

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you very much for watching.