Leonard Cohen Javier Mas Who By Fire Beacon Theatre NYC 2/19/09

A stirring flamenco guitar solo by Javier Mas precedes the 1974 Cohen classic Who By Fire from the album New Skins for the Old Ceremony. This song is based on the Hebrew prayer for the Day Atonement describing the various forms of death God metes out as punishment for sin. Charity and good works are prescribed as ways of avoid this judgement.

And who by fire, who by water,
who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
who in your merry merry month of may,
who by very slow decay,
and who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
and who by avalanche, who by powder,
who for his greed, who for his hunger,
and who shall I say is calling?

And who by brave assent, who by accident,
who in solitude, who in this mirror,
who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
who in mortal chains, who in power,
and who shall I say is calling?

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Music

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• Leonard
• Cohen
• Who
• By
• Fire
• Javier
• Mas
• flamenco
• guitar
• Judaism
• Atonement
• Hebrew
• prayer
• religion
• death
• sin
• guilt
• punishment

[doyle8550]

Fantastic, what kind of music is this? I wold like studying it with my guitar..any suggestion?

[cabaceline]

Javier Mas es uno de los mejores musico del mundo! Su forma de tocar es inimitable, que grande artista!

[juanjoblancogarcia]

Ese archilaud suena increible. Javier Más el mejor Archilaudero del mundo mundial.