The Partisan - Leonard Cohen

From Leonard Cohen's second album 'Songs From A Room' (1969). This song was actually written by Anna Marley and Hy Zaret.

I am playing it in the key of Bb. On the second time through I try to stay close to Cohen's style of playing.

The MP3 can be downloaded here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a18e92d5e21704b1d5a101cf914073b4051e1ea778...


Here are the English lyrics:

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.

I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.

An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadow

Category:

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• leonard
• cohen
• partisan
• ken
• middleton
• ukulele
• uke

[naominagler1]

I love this, would you mind posting the tab?

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

@naominagler1 Sorry, I never tab out songs. Why don't you start with the chords from Google?

[MagicalBaboon]

Very well played, great voice! Keep up the good work :)

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

@MagicalBaboon Thank you.

[tintentoni1977]

great voice, played great on the ukulele and somehow reminds me of the song "Over the Rainbow" sung by iz

great great graet....

Greetings from Flensburg in Germany

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you very much.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thank you.

[andreazizzi]

very good, ukulele is so cool! 

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks.

[agemoou]

excellent