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I tried to leave you

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Is I tried to leave you a Cohen song or a translation of a French song "Je voulais te quitter"?
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"I Tried to Leave You" was written, recorded, performed (from 1974 to 2010) by Leonard Cohen.
Graeme Allwright is a famous interpreter of Cohen's songs, the author of translations - including "Je voulais te quitter". It was released in 1975, one year after Cohen's original version.

It's known that Cohen have named the song by its French title for several times in 1976 (see http://www.leonardcohen-prologues.com/i_tried_to.htm). Anyhow, I guess, he didn't perform a single line from Allwright's translation (as he did with Serge Lama's "Vivre tout seul" = "Bird on the Wire").
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Your mini-site is coming along beautifully, Goldin.

I LOVE the Darkness Illustration by Daniel Sesé (Ilustrísimo Sr. Cohen)
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