Uploaded by TBAutiB on Oct 21, 2009
It has annoyed me a bit for years that one allways get to hear cover versions with the lyrics all wrong. I couldn't find the 1984 original on the web (from the LP Various positions), so I made this mega cheesy thing. (To my great chock even Leonard sang a "wrong" version...) Anyway: Here it is - with the better (more poetic in my opinion)
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@66loesje That story has got it's facts and numbers mixed up, at least according to a recent article in Rolling Stone, as well as Google. First of all, Cohen inquired about "I and I", not LaRS.
Secondly, Cohen said it took him the better part of -two- years, not 15 (which is ridiculous btw)
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You've got the same handwriting as my sister
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now ive heard a story of asecret cord that david plad to pleez the lord but u dont really care 4 music do yah !? i think
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I once heard a story bout Dylan asking Cohen how long it took him to write this song.
Cohen answered 15 years, then he asked Dylan how long it took him to write Like a Rolling stone.... 15 mins, Dylan sayd....
Hallelujah. 2 of the greatest songwriters of the last 50 years!
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Cohen never sang a wrong version. He just made his first version in 84 an released a live version in 88 where he replaced 3 out of 4 verses. John Cale made a version with 5 verses (well covered by Buckley, Lang and some others and badly covered by all the rest ) and Cohen brings now a version with 6 verses on his current world tours.
All the lyrics were written before the first version was released, so you can call all the version just 'variations' ...
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"...that David played AND IT pleased the lord" - not "to please" - big difference.
Greetings from "the tower of song"
TBAutiB 1 year ago 6
@TBAutiB John Cale relates that upon hearing Cohen perform the song live, he asked if he would send him the lyrics, and was later overwhelmed when Cohen sent him not merely the verses he sang that night, but all the verses he had written. Cale took them, and redacted the version that nearly all performers have followed since. In truth, while Leonard Cohen is the composer of the song, John Cale deserves credit for establishing the definitive version. (From Amazon.com)
MrErdner 1 year ago
@MrErdner I think the definite version will be "declared from the heaven above" some time later on.
TBAutiB 1 year ago