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Thanks, moubird. This is great.
Sue

Maarten, here is the Nashville set list. Leonard uses two and I was given one of his. YeeHaw.
There is a but. He did one of the "new" songs.
I believe it was the Venice Darkness. But I am on a high right now with a travel deadline. I will check my videos (but I had some trouble with that too). Alas, I have to pack for St Louis and can't do much until I get there.
So here is the set list as a starter.

Maybe The Straub's or the Way's can tell you which one it was ---Arlene
ps no Tennessee Waltz. More on that later.

Yes, Arlene is right - he did "The Darkness" in the new song slot instead of "Hey, That's no way...". This was a different new song than the one played in Durham. First line was: "Caught the darkness, drinking from your cup" - I stopped writing and started listening at that point.

Great show.

silverbar wrote:Yes, Arlene is right - he did "The Darkness" in the new song slot instead of "Hey, That's no way...". This was a different new song than the one played in Durham. First line was: "Caught the darkness, drinking from your cup" - I stopped writing and started listening at that point.

Great show.

Christian, I am so glad you posted this. I just wasn't sure afterwards. I enjoyed meeting both you and your wife.

Set list from St Louis, Fox Theatre.
One change: The Darkness in place of Hey, No way...
---Arlene

No Darkness.
Went back to Blues #2 Feel good/prisoner/blindfold/coffee
FBR Signed off, Sincerely, A friend
Poem=1000 kisses deep

11-13-09 - HP Pavilion, San Jose, CA
SET I
1. Dance Me To The End Of Love
2. The Future
3. Ain't No Cure For Love
4. Bird On The Wire
5. Everybody Knows
6. In My Secret Life
7. Who By Fire
8. Chelsea Hotel No. 2
9. Waiting For The Miracle
10. Anthem
SET II
1. Tower Of Song
2. Suzanne
3. Sisters Of Mercy
4. Gypsy's Wife
5. Feels So Good
6. The Darkness
7. The Partisan
8. Boogie Street
9. Hallelujah
10. I'm Your Man
11. A Thousand Kisses Deep
12. Take This Waltz
1st ENCORE
1. So Long, Marianne
2. First We Take Manhattan
2nd ENCORE
1. Famous Blue Raincoat
2. If It Be Your Will
3. Closing Time
3rd ENCORE
1. I Tried To Leave You
2. Democracy

Amazing show. Especially the second set. Holy moly. I could do without the folks with the glow sticks, but it was only for one song, so okay. (That song was "Suzanne," for those who are curious.) Leonard Cohen said that "Democracy" is not about the current administration, the past administration, or the next administration - but about "you and me."

San Jose setlist on the internet from a site called "fm" something

All setlists so far can be found here:
http://www.maartenmassa.be/LCdocs/LC_se ... 8-2009.pdf

Maarten

Thanks so much for posting this. I'm a late convert to Mr. Cohen's work. How i wish I had been to one of the Boston shows...

Maarten wrote:
>check my file for mistakes in the content and the actual setlist page


not a mistake, just an observance. leonard never uses 'the fall' to describe harvest season, but prefers the much more poetic alternative - as used in europe. for example: "take a lesson from these autumn leaves," etc. much nicer, don't you think?

Geoffrey wrote: not a mistake, just an observance. leonard never uses 'the fall' to describe harvest season, but prefers the much more poetic alternative - as used in europe. for example: "take a lesson from these autumn leaves," etc. much nicer, don't you think?

Geoffrey, you've got a point there! I used the word "fall" because Jarkko used to describe the leg of the tour like this, but what does he know about Leonard Cohen?
I think I'll go with "autumn" because of the poetic value and the fact that it is more European, like you said. I'm planning on keeping track of all the setlists for the 2010 part of the tour, but I'm not sure yet whether or not to start a new document for them or just add them after the 2008-2009 ones... It's a new world tour, right? Mmm... I might use the same document, but just rename it "2008-2009 World Tour and 2010 World Tour".

Thanks for pointing me to the autumn issue anyway! I will edit it once I add the new setlists, starting July 25 in Zagreb!

All the best,
Maarten

Maarten wrote:
>I used the word "fall" because Jarkko used to describe the leg of the tour like this


Well, unfortunately Jarkko has picked up a little bit of American English here and there. It doesn't matter all that much, it just tells people that there is room in the person's vocabulary for slight improvement - nothing really serious. But as I said, one may scour the entire catalogue of Leonard's works, both literary and musical, and never once find a season called 'fall'. Without exception he has used 'autumn' - like me.