Dress Rehearsal Rag Chords by Leonard Cohen

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_ _ _ _ Four o'clock in the _ afternoon and [C#] I didn't feel [C#m] like very much. _ _
_ [Dm] _ [Bm] _ I said to myself, where are you golden [G] boy?
[C#m] Where's your famous golden _ touch?
_ _ [G] _ [B] _ I thought you knew where all of [G] the [C#] _ _
elephants lie [C#m] down. _
_ _ [G] _ [Bm] _ I thought you were the crown _ prince of [G] all [C#m] the wheels in Ivory Town.
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Just take a look at your body now.
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There's nothing much to save.
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And a bitter [B] voice in the mirror cries, [Am] hey prince, _ you need a shave.
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Now if you can manage to get your trembling [C#m] _
fingers _ to _ behave,
why [B] _ _
don't you try _ unwrapping a stainless [C#m] steel _ razor _ blade?
That's _ [B] right, it's come to this. _
_ _ _ [A] _ [Am] Yes, it's come to _ this.
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And wasn't it a [D] _ _
long _ [G] way down? _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Wasn't it a [D] _
strange _ [G] way down? _ _ _ _ _
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_ There's no hot water and [C#] the cold is [C#m] running thin.
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Well, what do you expect from the kind of places [C#] you've been _ [C#m] living in?
_ _ _ [Bm] _ Don't drink from that cup.
It's all cake and [C#m] _
crack along the rim. _
_ _ That's [Bm] not the electric light, my friend.
That is your [C#m] _ _
vision _ growing dim.
_ [G] _ [Bm] _ _ _
Cover up your face with soap there.
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Now you're Santa _ Claus.
_ _ [Bm] _ And you've got a gift for anyone _ [G] who [Am] will _ give you his _ applause.
_ _ [G] _ [B] _ I thought you were a racing man, but [C#m] _ you couldn't take the pace. _
_ [B] That's a _ funeral in the mirror _ and [C#] it's stopping at your face.
That's right, [B] it's come to this.
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Yes, [A] it's come to [Am] this. _ _ _ _
_ [A#] _ And _ wasn't it a [D] long _ _
_ [G] way down? _
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Wasn't it a [A] strange _ _ way [G] down? _
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Once there was a path _ [C] and [C#m] a girl with chestnut hair. _
_ [D] [B] And you passed the summers picking all [F] of [C#m] the berries _ _ that grew _ there.
[Bm] There were _ [B] times she was a woman.
Oh, [F#m] there were _ [C#m] times she was just a child. _
_ [F] [Bm] And you held _ her in the _ shadows where [C#m] the _ _ _ raspberries grow wild.
_ And [B] you [Bm] climbed the twilight _ mountain.
_ _ [Am] And you _ sang about the view.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ And everywhere you wandered, love _ [A] seemed to go [Am] along with you.
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That's a hard one [B] to remember.
Yes, [C#] it _ makes you clench your fist.
And then [B] the veins stand out like _ _ highways [C#m] _ all along your wrist.
And [B] yes, it's come to this. _ _ _
_ _ [G] [A] It's come to [Am] this. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A#] And _ wasn't it a [D] _ _
long _ [G] way _ down? _ _ _ _ _
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_ Wasn't it [D] a _ strange _ way [G] _
down? _ _ _ _
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You can still find a job.
Go [C#] out and talk to a friend. _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] On the back of every _ magazine there are _ [C#] _ those _ coupons you can send.
_ Why [Bm] don't you join the _ _ _ Rosicrucians?
They [C#m] will give you back your hope. _
_ [G#] You [Bm] can find your love with _ diagrams _ on a [C#m] plain _ brown _ envelope. _
_ But [Bm] you've used up all your _ _ coupons _ [Am] except the one that seems _ to [Bm] be written on your wrist
along [Am] with several _ thousand green.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ Now Santa [B] Claus comes forward.
[C#] That's a razor [C#m] _ in his mitt.
_ [B] And he puts on his dark glasses.
_ And he [C#m] _ shows you where to hit.
And [G] then [B] the _ _ _ cameras _ pan.
_ The [A] _ _
stand [Am] in _ stunt _ _ [A#] man. _ _
Dress _ [D] _ _ _
rehearsal _ [G] rag. _
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It's just [A#] a dress _ _ [D] _ rehearsal _ _ _ _ [G] rag.
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You know [A#] this _ _ dress _ _ [D] _
_ _ rehearsal [G] _ _
rag. _ _ _ _
_ It's just [A#]
a _ dress _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] rehearsal _ _ _ _ _ rag.
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