Old Ideas:

Show Me The Place

written by Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard


Intro:  Bb  Bbsus4  Bb  Bbsus4
Bb                      Eb             Gm
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Eb            Bb           F
Show me the place I've forgotten I don't know
Bb                       Eb              Gm
Show me the place for my head is bending low
Eb            Bb        F              Bb
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place help me roll away the stone
Show me the place I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the Word became a man
Eb            Bb        F   Eb          Gm
Show me the place where the suffering began
              F     Eb                 Bb
The troubles came I saved what I could save
             F      Eb        Bb
A thread of light a particle, a wave
               Gm        D7             Eb
But there were chains so I hastened to behave
                              F
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place for my head is bent and low
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
(instrumental verse, same as verse 2)
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A thread of light a particle a wave
But there were chains so I hastened to behave
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Bb                     Eb              Gm
Show me the place
Eb             Bb      F
Show me the place
Bb                     Eb              Gm
Show me the place
Eb             Bb      F     Eb        Bb(sus4)
(instrumental line)

Bb                        Eb            Gm
Show me the place help me roll away the stone
Eb           Bb           F
Show me the place I can't move this thing alone
Bb                      Eb              Gm
Show me the place where the Word became a man
Eb           Bb         F     Eb        Bb
Show me the place where the suffering began