Chords for A Life of Errands by Leonard Cohen
Tempo:
92.9 bpm
Chords used:
F
Bb
Dm
G
Gm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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If you are lucky, you will grow old and live a life of [Bb]
errands.
You will drive your car here and there, delivering [Dm] and fetching,
You will whip down the 405 to San Diego to [G] pick up an acorn for someone's proverb,
in spite of the ache in your heart about the girl you never found
after years of spiritual rigor, you did not manage to enlighten yourself.
[F]
[G] [Bb]
errands.
You will drive your car here and there, delivering [Dm] and fetching,
You will whip down the 405 to San Diego to [G] pick up an acorn for someone's proverb,
in spite of the ache in your heart about the girl you never found
after years of spiritual rigor, you did not manage to enlighten yourself.
[F]
[G] [Bb]
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F
Bb
Dm
G
Gm
F
Bb
Dm
If you are lucky, you will grow old and live a life of [Bb]
errands.
[G] You will discern what people need and provide it before they [F] ask.
You will drive your car here and there, delivering [Dm] and fetching,
and neither the traffic nor the weather will bother you in the least.
[F]
You will whip down the 405 to San Diego to [G] pick up an acorn for someone's proverb,
and so on and so forth, [Bb]
in spite of the ache in your heart about the girl you never found
and [F] the fact that after years of spiritual rigor, you did not manage to enlighten yourself.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ Let [Bb] me go, I don't want to, I don't want [F] to, don't
_ [Dm] Let [Gm] _ [Bb] me go, I don't want to, [F] want to, want [F] to
A certain cheerfulness will begin to arise out of your [Gm] crushed hopes and intentions
_ [Gm] How thirstily [D] you embrace your next [F] commission
The sift through the sunglasses that have [Dm] lost and found in Las [A] Vegas
Just a few hours across [G] the desert
_ [F]
Your hair is white, you have breast and a gut [G] over your belt
You are no longer a boy or even a man
[Bb]
But a sense of gratitude enlivens every move you make
_ [F] _
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You hold on, you hold on, [Bb] you're holding on to me
You [F]
hold on, you hold on, [Bb] you're holding on to me
Yeah, [F] you hold on, _ hold on, [Bb] you're holding on to me
Yeah, [F] you hold on, hold on, _ [Bb] you're holding on to me
So [F] hold on, _ hold on, [Bb] hold on, hold on to _ me
So [F] hold on, _ hold on, [Bb] hold _ on, hold on to me
_ [F] _
_ Don't [Dm] let _ _ [G] me go, [Bb] I don't want to, I don't [F] want to, don't
_ _ [Dm] Let [Bb] me go, I don't want to, I don't want to, [F] _
don't
[Dm] Don't let _ me [Bb] go, I don't want to, I don't want to, [F] _
don't
[Dm] Let _ [Bb] me go, I don't want to, I don't want to, [F] don't
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errands.
[G] You will discern what people need and provide it before they [F] ask.
You will drive your car here and there, delivering [Dm] and fetching,
and neither the traffic nor the weather will bother you in the least.
[F]
You will whip down the 405 to San Diego to [G] pick up an acorn for someone's proverb,
and so on and so forth, [Bb]
in spite of the ache in your heart about the girl you never found
and [F] the fact that after years of spiritual rigor, you did not manage to enlighten yourself.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ Let [Bb] me go, I don't want to, I don't want [F] to, don't
_ [Dm] Let [Gm] _ [Bb] me go, I don't want to, [F] want to, want [F] to
A certain cheerfulness will begin to arise out of your [Gm] crushed hopes and intentions
_ [Gm] How thirstily [D] you embrace your next [F] commission
The sift through the sunglasses that have [Dm] lost and found in Las [A] Vegas
Just a few hours across [G] the desert
_ [F]
Your hair is white, you have breast and a gut [G] over your belt
You are no longer a boy or even a man
[Bb]
But a sense of gratitude enlivens every move you make
_ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
You hold on, you hold on, [Bb] you're holding on to me
You [F]
hold on, you hold on, [Bb] you're holding on to me
Yeah, [F] you hold on, _ hold on, [Bb] you're holding on to me
Yeah, [F] you hold on, hold on, _ [Bb] you're holding on to me
So [F] hold on, _ hold on, [Bb] hold on, hold on to _ me
So [F] hold on, _ hold on, [Bb] hold _ on, hold on to me
_ [F] _
_ Don't [Dm] let _ _ [G] me go, [Bb] I don't want to, I don't [F] want to, don't
_ _ [Dm] Let [Bb] me go, I don't want to, I don't want to, [F] _
don't
[Dm] Don't let _ me [Bb] go, I don't want to, I don't want to, [F] _
don't
[Dm] Let _ [Bb] me go, I don't want to, I don't want to, [F] don't
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