FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT (With Lyrics) - Leonard Cohen & Jennifer Warnes

** PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION BELOW TO APPRECIATE MORE THIS FASCINATING SONG ABOUT BETRAYAL AND ...** * HIT THE WHEEL BUTTON BELOW THE VIDEO SCREEN & VIEW IN 360p AND ABOVE * “Famous Blue Raincoat“ by Leonard Cohen & Jennifer Warnes copyrighted by SME & IODA About the Singers & the Song: “Famous Blue Raincoat“ is a song by Leonard Cohen. It is the sixth track on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971. The song is written in the form of a letter (many of the lines are written in amphibrachs). The lyric tells the story of a love triangle between the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the male addresse. The lyrics contain references to the German love song “Lili Marlene,“ to Scientology, and to Clinton Street. Cohen lived on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1970s when it was a lively Latino area. In the 1999 book, The Complete Guide to the Music of Leonard Cohen, the authors comment that Cohen’s question, “Did you ever go clear?“, in the song, is a reference to
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