New Skin for the Old Ceremony:

Leaving Green Sleeves

written by Leonard Cohen


Am                          G
Alas, my love, you did me wrong
F                  E
To cast me out discourteously
Am                    G
For I have loved you so long
F         E              Am
Delighting in your very company

Now if you intend to show me disdain
Don't you know it all the more enraptures me
For even so I still remain
Your lover in captivity
C                     G
Green sleeves, you're all alone
Am                           Em
The leaves have fallen, the men have gone
C                     G
Green sleeves, there's no one home
Am            E           Am
Not even the Lady Green Sleeves
I sang my songs, I told my lies
To lie between your matchless thighs
And ain't it fine, ain't it wild
To finally end our exercise

Then I saw you naked in the early dawn
Oh, I hoped you would be someone new
I reached for you but you were gone
So lady I'm going too
Green sleeves, you're all alone
The leaves have fallen, the men have gone
Green sleeves, there's no one home
Not even the Lady Green Sleeves

Green sleeves, you're all alone
The leaves have fallen, the men have all gone home
Green sleeves, it's so easily done
I mean, leaving the Lady Green Sleeves