Everybody knows san Sebastian 1988

[peter danielsen]

In this Concert Leonard Cohen in the Song everybody knows songs: everybody knows Jesus is born in BethleHem,

Anyone know where I Can find the rest lyrics of that alternative verse
Peter

[tomsakic]

All lyrics' variations were usually available at the Leonard Cohen Prologues website but it seems gone for good now.

All that job on the all the songs prologues and talks and lyrics variations... gone...

Wayback machine has it preserved, here is the page for Everybody Knows: https://web.archive.org/web/20170201164 ... ogues.com/

Everybody knows (1988-1993)

Read the original lyrics of the song

Amsterdam April 1988
Here's a terrible new song. Yes, it embodies all my darkest thoughts. Here it comes.

Hamburg 14/4/88
sung verse variation

Everybody knows that the Jews are clever
Everybody knows that the Blacks are blue
Everybody knows that you live forever
When you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten:
Old Black Joe's still picking cotton
For your ribbons and bows.
Everybody knows.

Interview (Magazine "Poetry Commotion", 1988 *)
About the verse "Everybody knows the plague is coming"

The plague in the most physical sense is AIDS. But there's another kind of plague going on too, of which AIDS is one of the symptoms. If indeed disease does have ultimately a psychic origin, then there's a plague of alienation and separation and lassitude and panic; a sense of not being in control.

*Read the complete interview

Boston 16/07/93 (alternative in San Sebastian, 1988)
spoken verse (Boston 1993)

Everybody knows that Christ was born in Bethlehem without a dime
Everybody knows the homeless people could be you some other time
Everybody knows the deal is rotten ....

Sung verse (San Sebastian 1988)

Everybody knows that Jesus was born in Bethlehem without a single dime
Everybody knows the homeless people could be himself some other time
Everybody knows the deal is rotten ....