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Song title:      Passing Through
Original Album:	 Songs for Political Action - Folk Music Topical Songs
                   and the American Left 1926-1953 
Other Album:     Live Songs (Leonard Cohen)

Words and Music by Dick Blakeslee
Copyright © 1948 Dick Blakeslee and 1996 Bear Family Records
Copyright © 1973 Columbia Records (Cohen)
Published by Sony Music Publishing (Cohen)

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Transcribed from Cohen's version on his 1973 album "Live Songs".


VERSE1:
Chords:
C  x32010
F  x33211
G  320003

      C                       F                C
I saw Jesus on the cross on a hill called Calvary
                                           G
"Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?"

         C                                 F                 C
He said, "Talk of love not hate, things to do - it's getting late.
                            G            C
I've so little time and I'm only passing through."


CHORUS1:
Chords:
C  x32010
F  x33211
G  320003

        C
Passing through, passing through.
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
          F          C
Glad that I ran into you.
                         G               C
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.


VERSE2:
Chords:
C  x32010
F  x33211
G  320003

      C                             F
I saw Adam leave the Garden with an apple in his hand,
                                               G
I said, "Now you're out, what are you going to do?"

            C                              F              C
"Plant some crops and pray for rain, maybe raise a little cane.
                           G            C
I'm an orphan now, and I'm only passing through."


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE3:
Chords:
C  x32010
F  x33211
G  320003

           C                          F                C
I was with Washington at Valley Ford, shivering in the snow.
                                                G
I said, "How come the men here suffer like they do?"

          C                            F               C
"Men will suffer, men will fight, even die for what is right
                              G            C
even though they know they're only passing through"


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE4:
Chords:
C  x32010
F  x33211
G  320003

           C                                F               C
I was with Franklin Roosevelt's side on the night before he died.
                                               G
He said, "One world must come out of World War Two" (ah, the fool)

         C                                   F              C
"Yankee, Russian, white or tan," he said, "A man is still a man.
                                 G            C
We're all on one road, and we're only passing through."


[repeat CHORUS]

(let's do it one more time)

[repeat CHORUS]