Leonard Cohen - Ballad Of The Absent Mare - Longer Version (Official Audio)

[@larrasket]

And they are gone like the smoke, and they are gone like this song. Rest in peace, Leo.

[@dieterbusenhart1726]

I was so lucky to see Leonard in Zurich, Switzerland in the early 70s - thank you Leonard for all you have done for us. RIP

[@ulrichwill496]

👍👍👏👏❤️🇨🇭

[@PaulSaether]

Nobody else could bring this off. And the backing singers!...

[@PaulSaether]

I meant to say THE BACKING MUSICIANS! Saw Len at the IOW in 1970. After 5 days everyone (In the audience) was very sleepy. As he started to play and the backing singers started to sing and the musicians hit their stride people in the audience started to wake up like rabbits peeping into a torchbeam. First just a few and then more and more A sea of happy eyes. Then came the Hoedown (Tonight will be fine). And so it went on. The whole concert is on UTube. No one who was there will ever forget it.

[@jeremysphincter1094]

The cowboy song to end all cowboy songs. God it’s just beautiful.

[@ArcoZakus]

Jeremy Sphincter, This is beautiful. Emmylou Harris also recorded it in her unique way. As for it being "The cowboy song to end all cowboy songs", I think Ed Bruce wrote that one: "Ed Bruce - The Last Cowboy Song" -- James Stiltner kzbin.info/www/bejne/onumY2WbiL2YjqM

[@johnnysalter7072]

@@ArcoZakus Leonard wrote her a letter congratulating and thanking her for making it.

[@moondancer4660]

Yes it is beautiful

[@ulrichwill496]

Yesss!!❤

[@mohammedhanif6780]

superb spiritual psychological song. one of the best ever written.

[@SeetaaSushobhitaAparaa]

Can't read now, misplaced the glasses ; Everytime listening to this song, reminds me. : how lucky we are to exist in the world ❤ Wish, we all ( humans) use every opportunity to love all our siblings ( all the creatures, starting with ourselves ) and our very home, lap of maamaa EARTH 🌎 ❤

[@alwaysfourfun1671]

So beautiful! Couldn't stop playing the record, back in 1980. Leonard has a way to capture everything that is important in all of humanity.

[@Magaboon]

Cohen songs are sweet and sad. This man really understood the emotional turmoils one can live, great poetry

[@ulrichwill496]

Leonard wir vermissen Dich. Ein wunderbarer Musiker und Mensch. Emmylou Harris covert das auch genial.❤🇨🇭

[@mayoly9030]

Why does this song always make me cry?

[@GreenHeet]

Because it's so beautiful ❤️

[@jochenjeroensmet4729]

Undoubtedly one of his very best! Highly underrated song!

[@louigivan]

Who could have said it; The best mariachi tune I've ever heard comes from a Canadian. ¡Bravo señor Leonard! le recordamos desde México.

[@sneakydeaky8445]

Get real.

[@regbowes1127]

Leonard had many influences!

[@monotrious]

Lyrical Genius . Love All Of Leonard Cohen . Love You Leonard , We All Do . XXX .

[@leskinsella7310]

Had the pleasure of seeing Leonard at the o2 arena in Liverpool a few years ago ,absolutely fantastic evening ,what a show this man put on Rip

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

I met him in southports floral hall back early 70s, such a humble man he thanked me for being there.

[@blankwall4209]

Yeah! I was there too!!! Fantastic evening!!! Also saw him in Birmingham. A true legend.

[@moondancer9066]

2:34 The world is sweet, the world is wide.... I do regret that I was never able to travel. I heard Mr. Cohen say in an interview that his only luxury was to be able to buy a plane ticket to anywhere in the world at a moment's notice.

[@cosimofilannino3766]

13,12: Questa canzone mi fa commuovere ogni volta che l' ascolto. È dovuto alla magia che Cohen sparge tutt' attorno.

[@yvonneovey9000]

Thank you Shining Girls! God, I love Cohen, so pleased I got to see him live.

[@francoisbercher3061]

The version of Emmylou Harris is an absolute gem ! The title is "Ballad of a Runaway Horse", and she make me crying, submerged by emotional waves..

[@heartwithnocompanion]

Pure beauty! As this unmatched man was too ♥️

[@Азиза-э9л]

Beautiful song

[@moondancer9066]

Beauty in so many forms 💕. And magic. 🦋🧚‍♀️🍀⚘

[@unisocial]

love this! Made my day.

[@BrunoGrazianoG]

Say a prayer for the cowboy His mare's run away And he'll walk til he finds her His darling, his stray But the river's in flood And the roads are awash And the bridges break up In the panic of loss. And there's nothing to follow There's nowhere to go She's gone like the summer Gone like the snow And the crickets are breaking His heart with their song As the day caves in And the night is all wrong Did he dream, was it she Who went galloping past And bent down the fern Broke open the grass And printed the mud with The iron and the gold That he nailed to her feet When he was the lord And although she goes grazing A minute away He tracks her all night He tracks her all day Oh blind to her presence Except to compare His injury here With her punishment there Then at home on a branch In the highest tree A songbird sings out So suddenly Ah the sun is warm And the soft winds ride On the willow trees By the river side Oh the world is sweet The world is wide And she's there where The light and the darkness divide And the steam's coming off her She's huge and she's shy And she steps on the moon When she paws at the sky And she comes to his hand But she's not really tame She longs to be lost He longs for the same And she'll bolt and she'll plunge Through the first open pass To roll and to feed In the sweet mountain grass Or she'll make a break For the high plateau Where there's nothing above And there's nothing below And it's time for the burden It's time for the whip Will she walk through the flame Can he shoot from the hip So he binds himself To the galloping mare And she binds herself To the rider there And there is no space But there's left and right And there is no time But there's day and night And he leans on her neck And he whispers low "Whither thou goest I will go" And they turn as one And they head for the plain No need for the whip Ah, no need for the rein Now the clasp of this union Who fastens it tight? Who snaps it asunder The very next night Some say the rider Some say the mare Or that love's like the smoke Beyond all repair But my darling says "Leonard, just let it go by That old silhouette On the great western sky" So I pick out a tune And they move right along And they're gone like the smoke And they're gone like this song

[@regbowes1127]

Masterful!

[@NoManch3sGuey]

Shining Girls brought me here. Great song and great series.

[@jadwigajaniszewska-listwon7596]

Nie można nie kochać piosenek Cohena...

[@merriluce6929]

Prawda... :'-)

[@ulrichwill496]

Yesss ❤❤❤🇨🇭

[@mariedecosta3859]

Sublissimme chanson d'amour !! 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓🥰🥰😍🇫🇷

[@davidatkinson3887]

What else can you say other than he "nailed it"!

[@nadavlapidottal3208]

amazing song so beautiful

[@targarosko]

so moving song i love it thanks ♥♥♥

[@pauloarros]

Hermosa canción...

[@mariedecosta3859]

Intemporelle ! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🫶🫶🇲🇫

[@dangaines405]

Great song! Thanks!

[@mujaku]

Leonard Cohen based his song 'Ballad of the Absent Mare', which appeared in his album Recent Songs published in 1979, on the Ten Bulls stories. In the liner notes to the album, Cohen thanks his Zen Master Roshi for inspiring one of the songs: "I owe my thanks to Joshu Sasaki upon whose exposition of an early Chinese text I based 'Ballad of the Absent Mare.'" Wikipedia

[@chrisipati6152]

Couragious man, Ι believe

[@CriticasterDuo]

I recently reconnected by way of email with a long ago perfect lover. We had a steamy love affair and I loved him passionately. I often think about him. I sent him the "Ballad of the absent mare". The song perfectly captures how I feel about him. We cannot regain the years that were lost and there is no point in attempting to do so but the memories are sweet.

[@1dawnf]

i love hearing his songs in shows and apple tv uses them alot

[@marcsuanez7877]

Souvenir

[@marikabezuidenhout1659]

Is there anyone else I can listen to that come anywhere near this gentle, genuis, soulwhisperer⁉

[@louisfresen7762]

Yesss. I totally agree. ❤

[@kenburkham5483]

I can't believe she's gone, Mi tierra.😢

[@bau6078]

One of hes masterpieces could be the sound of freedom them trumpet yeha

[@mmarks4]

I love this so much!

[@carmelcrowley158]

Nice painting. Was it she went galloping past. All those sge crazy, injury at home on a hightest tree by the winters smile, steps on the moon, timhe for the burden braced no space, there is west and whispering, no need thunder. Like the blues, that silluot, gine like this song.

[@leemorgan4799]

This is Leonard Cohen's version of a country and Western song.

[@moondancer9066]

I just know it's a beautiful ballad. 💕

[@alb639]

Leonard was once a part of a Country Western band. They were called the Buckskin Boys.

[@johnnysalter7072]

What song?

[@UtopiaForMore]

@@johnnysalter7072 this one.

[@johnc5160]

He loved Hank Williams, as referenced in Tower of Song.

[@choosehappiness888tarot]

Love this❤️❤️

[@paulgiles8486]

The world is sweet and the world is wide She's there where the light and the darkness divide The steam's coming off her, she's huge and she's shy And she steps on the moon when she paws at the sky They don't write love songs like that any more.

[@711-j5j]

"the bridges break up in the panic of loss"

[@ulrichwill496]

Stimmt!!🇨🇭

[@RIDETHESUNSHINE]

“Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy.” Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy . Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran

[@mohamedr3w]

shining girls s1 e6 end ❤

[@lillonzi]

And the bridges break up In the panic of loss.

[@paulawhannell18]

❤

[@marthaellenconner98]

💛

[@nickyjohn9838]

Watching Shining Girls. 1:34 1:28

[@lee8419]

Shining Girls bought me here. Love Cohen but not heard this

[@Bibigon-x1c]

So am I

[@pierre-bernardelsig9998]

This song is inspired by a old chinese song or poem. Yahouuuuuuu !...

[@jojones4685]

Can you link me to it?

[@pierre-bernardelsig9998]

Dear Jo. On the sleeve of the LP Recent Songs, after the lyrics, Leonard Cohen wrote : "I owe my thanks to Joshu Sasaki, upon whose exposition of an early Chinese text I based Ballad of the Absent Mare;" I hope I gave you the rigth answer.

[@cheboyganoperahouse6380]

@@jojones4685 It's called the 10 Bulls of Zen-- paintings and a poem.

[@cheboyganoperahouse6380]

@@pierre-bernardelsig9998 It's the 10 Bulls of Zen, paintings and poetry. Emmy Lou Harris also does a version called The Cowgirl's Prayer.

[@johnnysalter7072]

@@cheboyganoperahouse6380 Cohen wrote her a letter thanking her for doing it.

[@sneakydeaky8445]

"I just read a paperback about cowboys."

[@bernardwills9674]

It's like Roy Rogers and Kabbalah had a baby.

[@matteopopolizio6939]

Una storia sbagliata :'(

[@francopettinari6505]

Infatti questa canzone è l'ennesimo plagio di de' andrè.

[@ulrichwill496]

Stimmt!❤🇨🇭