Show Me The Place Chords
Show Me The Place by Leonard Cohen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, Asus4, F#m, E, D and C#7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: A Asus4 A Asus4
Verse 1:
A D F#m
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
D A E
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
A D F#m
Show me the place where my head is bend and low
D A E A
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Verse 2
A D F#m
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
D A E
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
A D F#m
Show me the place where the word became a man
D A E A F#m
Show me the place where the suffering began
E D A
The troubles came I saved what I could save
E D A
A shred of light, a particle a wave
F#m C#7 D
But there were chains so I hastened to behave
E
There were chains so I loved you like a slave