‘The Stranger Song’ Leonard Cohen - Chords In Description (Standard - No Capo)

Thanks to Syd for suggesting this one.

Here is some info from Songfacts:

If this song were a stick of Blackpool rock it would have the name Leonard Cohen written through its middle.

The essence of the alienated outsider, it appears on Cohen's debut album, Songs Of Leonard Cohen, and also in the 1967 film The Ernie Game, about a man released from a mental asylum, apparently prematurely.

More fittingly, it is the opening song from the offbeat 1971 Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller in which Warren Beatty plays a gambler turned semi-legitimate businessman/brothel keeper.

McCabe begins as the stranger in town - a regular Western theme - and ends up dead after a shoot out with the hired hands of a big corporation that attempts to muscle in on his operation.

Performed solo by Cohen, the song connects so well with the sad tale of McCabe that it could have been written for the film.

Chords

I am using Leonard’s Julie Felix Show performance as a guide for the intro, and the first few chords of the first verse. You can check out that version here:    • Leonard Cohen: The Stranger Song  

I must do a Julie Felix tune. Amazing voice.

Intro

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I think he was tesing his guitar mic here but sounds good so I left it in 😃

Verse
D
CaddG (x-3-2-0-1-3)
D
A
Asus2 (x-0-2-2-0-0)
E
F#m (2-4-4-0-0-0) to F#msus4 (2-4-4-4-0-0)
E
F#m (to F#msus4)
E
F#m (to F#msus4)
E
F#m (to F#msus4)

…and repeat throughout entire song.

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