Avalanche – by Leonard Cohen
July 31, 2010 by baritone ukulele
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I play a different accompaniment every third verse to add a bit of variety. It seemed a good idea at the time. It is a great song though. It comes from Cohen’s album “Songs of Love and Hate” which was released in 1971. Wikipedia makes this comment: “The lyrics are based on a poem he had previously written. The music is notoriously difficult to play on the guitar. Cohen went on record saying “Every guitarist has one chop, and I used mine on Avalanche”. He acknowledged in a 1992 interview with Paul Zollo that his “chop”, his unique pattern of playing, is behind many of his early songs.”
