Ballad Of The Absent Mare Chords by Leonard Cohen

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_ Say a prayer for the cowboy _ his mare's run away
_ And [D] he'll walk till he finds her his darling his stray
[A] But the rivers and flood _ and the roads are awash _ [E] and the bridges break up _ _ _
In the [F#] panic of [A] love _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and
There's nothing to follow _
_ There's nowhere to go _
_ She's [D] gone like the summer
_ Gone like the snow and [A] the crickets are breaking his heart with their song
_ [E] as the day caves in _ _ and
[A] The night is all wrong _ _ _
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Did he dream was it she who went galloping past? _
_ [E] [D] And bent down the fern
broke open the grass [A] and
_ Printed the mud with the iron and the [F#m] gold that [E] he nailed to her feet _ _ _
when [D] he was [A] the Lord _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and
Although she goes grazing a minute away
_ _ He [D] tracks her all night.
He tracks her all day
[A] Oh blind to her presence
Except to compare his [E] injury here _ _ _ _ with a [D]
punishment [A] there _ _
Then _ _ _ _ _ _ at home on a branch in the highest tree _ _ [D] a _
Songbird sings out so suddenly
_ _ [A] The Sun is warm and the soft winds ride on the [E] willow tree _ by _ [D] the
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_ _ Or the world is sweet
_ _ World is wild and [D] she's there where the light and the darkness
_ Divide and [A] the steams coming off
She's huge and she's shy [E] and she steps on the moon _
when she [D] paws at [A] the sky _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And she comes to his hand, but she's not really came
She [D] _ longs to be lost
He longs for the same [Bm] and [A] she'll pull and she'll plunge through the first open pass
[E] to roll and to be
_ in [D] the sweet mountain [A] grass _ _
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Or she'll make a break for the high plateau _
Where [D] there's nothing above and there's nothing below _
And [A] it's time for their burden.
_ It's time for the whip.
Will [E] she walk through the flame?
_ _ _ Can [D] he shoot from [A] the hip? _ _
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So he binds himself to the
Galloping mare and [D] she binds herself to the rider there _
And [A] there is no space
But there's left and right [F#m] and [E] there is no time
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there's day [A] and night _ _
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And he leans on her neck _ and he whispers low
_ _ [D] With a thou goest _ _ I
Will go [A] and they turn as one _ and they head for the plane
_ _ [E] No need for the whip
_ _ My no [D] need [A] for the ring _
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[B] Now the [A] clasp of this union
_ Who fastens it tight?
_ [D] Who snaps it asunder _ the very next night?
_ [A] Some say the rider
_ Some say the mare [E] or that loves like the smoke
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beyond [A] all repair _
But _ _ _ _ _ _ my darling says Leonard
_ _ [D#] Just let it go [A] by [D] that old _
[E] Silhouette [G#] on the great western sky [A] so I pick out a tune and they move right along
_ [B] And they're [E] gone like the smoke
_ _ And [D] they're gone like [A] this song _
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