The Partisan - Leonard Cohen

Tuning: , D G C F A D

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Suggested pattern:

            
D|----------0-
A|-------1----
F|----2-------
C|------------
G|-0----------
D|------------
   p  i  m  a 

              
--------------
-1------------
----2-----2---
-------2------
--------------
--------------
 m  i  p  i   

             
|-----------0-
|--------1----
|-----0-------
|-------------
|--3----------
|-------------
   p  i  m  a 

      
--|-----------
--|--------0--
--|-----1-----
--|-----------
--|-----------
--|--0--------
     p  i  m  

0--|
---|
---|
---|
---|
---|
a

The pattern is played two times per bar (indicated by / in first verse).
In the first and second line of every verse there are three chords per bar
and I play the pattern C and E.

Cohen plays - don't really know :

            
D|------------
A|-------1----
F|----2-------
C|----------2-
G|-0----------
D|------------
   p  i  m  p 

              
-------------0
----1-----1---
-2-----2------
--------------
--------------
--------------
 i  m  p  i  m

             
----------|---
--------1-|---
-----2----|---
--2-------|---
----------|--3
----------|---
  p  i  m    e

                    
-----------------|-------------------|
-----1--------1--|--------0--------0-|
--0--------0-----|-----1--------1----|
--------2--------|-----------2-------|
-----------------|--2----------------|
-----------------|-------------------|
tc.

There are twenty four notes (triplets) per bar, too much for my fingers.

    /    

        /    
When they pour

             
ed a-cross the

 
 border
    /        
I was cautione

        
d to sur-rende

r,
     /       
this I could n

      /  (
ot do;
            
  I took my gu

        /    
n and van-ishe

      /    /   
d.

             
I have changed

           
 my name so of

ten,
            
I've lost my w

        
ife and childr

en
             
but I have man

             
y fri-ends,
            
   and some of

              
 them are with

      /    /  
 me.

            
An old woman g

       
ave us shelter

,
             
kept us hidden

       
 in the garret

,
             
then the soldi

          
ers came;
            
    she died w

              
ithout a whis-

        /  
per.

             
There were thr

             
ee of us this 


morning       

              

Hier encore no

us étions troi

s
            
I'm the only o

        
ne this evenin

g             

              

Il ne reste pl

us que moi
             
but I must go 

     
on;           

              

              

Et je tourne e

n rond
            
  the fron-tie

              
rs are my pri-

        
son.          

/  
              

Dans la prison

 des frontière

s

             
Oh, the wind, 

           
the wind is bl

owing,        

              

La vent souffl

e sur les tomb

es
             
through the gr

             
aves the wind 

   
is blowing,   

              

La liberté rev

iendra
             
freedom soon w

            
ill come;     

              

              

On nous oublie

ra !
             
  then we'll c

             
ome from the s

       /  
had-ows.      

 /  
              

Nous rentreron

s dans l'ombre

.

             
Les Alle-mands

             
 é-taient chez

 
 moi,         

              

The Germans we

re at my home
             
ils me dirent:

          
 "Ré-signe toi

,"            

              

They said, "do

 resign,"
             
mais je n'ai p

       
as peur;      

              

              

But I am not a

fraid
            
   j'ai repris

            
 mon ar-me.   

/   /  
              


              

I have retaken

 my weapon.

             
J'ai chan-gé c

           
ent fois de no

m,            

              

I have changed

 names a hundr

ed times
             
j'ai per-du fe

         
mme et en-fant

s             

              

I have lost wi

fe and childre

n
             
mais j'ai tant

            
 d'a-mis;     

              

              

But I have so 

many friends
             
    j'ai la Fr

            
ance en-tière.

  /  
              

              

I have all of 

France

             
Un vieil homme

            
 dans un gre-n


ier           

              

An old man, in

 an attic
             
pour la nuit n

        
ous a ca-chés,

              

              

Hid us for the

 night
             
les Alle-mands

            
 l'ont pris;  

              

              

The Germans ca

ptured him
            
   il est mort

            
 sans surpri-s

   /  
e.            

              

He died withou

t surprise.

             
Oh, the wind, 

           
the wind is bl

owing,
             
through the gr

             
aves the wind 

   
is blowing,
             
freedom soon w

            
ill come;
             
    then we'll

             
 come from the

                 /   (
 shad-ows.

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