From: ADI@chemie.uni-regensburg.de (adi)

Pattern:
                                    /A                A             /
Strumming the chords:  1   2 & 3 &  4  5 & 6 &  two times per bar (6/8).

So Long, Marianne
    
Booklet Greatest Hits:

"I began this on Aylmer Street in Montreal and finished it a yaer or so
later at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. I didn't think I was saying goodbye 
but I guess I was. She gave me many songs, and she has given songs to others too. 
She is a Muse. A lot of people I know think that there is nothing more important
than making a song. Fortunately, this belief arises infrequently  in their 
conversation."

    
         /A          /                           /Bm      /      /
Come over to the window, my little darling,
D            /D                      /A      /
I'd like to try to read your palm.
G                      /                           /D               /
  I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy,
F#m       /                            /E    Esus4/
  before I let you take me home.
E   E7  /A         /                / F#m           /
     Now so long, Marianne,    it's time that we began to
  /E  Esus4  /E   E7  /E Esus4/
   laugh  and cry and  cry  and
 E       E7           /A     /Asus4  /A  /Asus4 /A 
 laugh about it all again.    
    
    /A   etc.
Well you know that I love to live with you,
but you make me forget so very much.
I forget to pray for the angels
and then the angels forget to pray for us.

Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...

We met when we were almost young
deep in the green lilac park.
You held on to me like I was a crucifix,
as we went kneeling through the dark.

Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...

Your letters they all say that you're beside me now.
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
is fastening my ankle to a stone.

Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...

For now I need your hidden love.
I'm cold as a new razor blade.
You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.

Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...

Oh, you are really such a pretty one.
I see you've gone and changed your name again.
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,
to wash my eyelids in the rain!

Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...

(last two verses not on CD)

Oh your eyes, well I forgot Your eyes
Your body's at home in every sea.
How come you gave away your news to everyone
That you said was a secret for me.

Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... 

If you leave, where will I keep you then
In my heart as some men say
But I who was born to love everyone
Why should I keep you so far away?

Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... 

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There is a french version of this song by Georges Chelon
Here is the first verse: 

J`‚tais je pense comme un boh‚mian
Et je lisais les lignes de ta main
Tu as tu‚ mon ѓme de gitan
Et je t'en veux, t'en loue en m?me temps

Adieu Marianne 
Le temps vient o— nous allons rire
Pleurer et rire pleurer puis en rire … nouveua

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