Marianne Faithful was being interviewed on the BBC a couple of years ago on a chat show and said that Leonard wrote the song about her!

Which I believed until now...

Ah yes, Priests was another song that I thought I might one day get to hear. Though saying all this, there is something nice knowing that there isn't tons of studio outtakes and unreleased bits and demo tracks floating around, the antithesis of Dylan. I have the Rare Songs bootlegs Vol. 1 and 2, but...

Is there a reason why he never played it live?

I have often wondered whether, in Sing Another Song, Boys, the reference to "the money lender's lovely little daughter / is eaten with desire" is a reference to Shylock from Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice. Shylock was a Jew, and a 'money lender', and his daughter was 'eaten with desire' ...

On the album notes of Greatest Hits, Leonard writes that he had to cut the verses down to create the finished song.
So who knows what the "missing verses" of this song are?

Well, from what I know, a live version replaced the original studio version at the last minute before the album was pressed. And I want to hear it!!

I understand that on Songs Of Love & Hate, the penultimate song, Sing Another Song, Boys, was replaced at the last minute by the Live version that we have today. So who can tell me how I can hear Cohen's original studio version???!

Stranger Song
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
Last Years Man
Famous Blue Raincoat
Queen Victoria
Take This Longing
Chelsea Hotel # 2
If It Be Your Will
The Smokey Life

I adore the poetry from his utterly underrated song, Queen Victoria: "Queen Victoria I am cold and rainy I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station I feel like an empty cast iron exhibition..." And I might also add, from my favourite song, Take This Longing: "Your body like a searc...