Thanks For The Dance:

Puppets

Words by Leonard Cohen, music by Adam Cohen


G
German puppets burned the Jews, Jewish puppets did not choose
D                               C
Puppet vultures eat the dead, puppet corpses they are fed
G
Puppet winds and puppet waves, puppet sailors in their graves
D                            C
Puppet flower, puppet stem; puppet time dismantles them
G                          Em             C     G
Puppet me and puppet you, puppet German, puppet Jew

Puppet Presidents command puppet troops to burn the land
Puppet fire, puppet flames feed on all the puppet names
Puppet lovers in their bliss turn away from all of this
Puppet reader shakes his head, takes his puppet wife to bed
Puppet me and puppet you, puppet German, puppet Jew

Em... C... G...

G                           B
Puppet Presidents command puppet troops to burn the land
C                           Am
Puppet fire, puppet flames feed on all the puppet names
G
Puppet night comes down to play the after act to puppet day