the roamer<p>A pitch-perfect speech by a great and humble poet. So much said in so few words. </p><p>And the most moving tribute paid to his accidental guitar teacher in the early 1960s, a young man from Spain in Montreal who gave him three lessons and then vanished.</p><p>"It was those six chords, it was that guitar pattern, that has been the basis of all my songs."</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/VIR5ps8usuo?si=I7wYHNwiETvRCh-V" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/VIR5ps8usuo?si=I7wYHN</span><span class="invisible">wiETvRCh-V</span></a></p><p>Remembering Leonard Cohen, 21 Sept 1934 -- 7 Nov 2016.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LeonardCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardCohen</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/oratory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oratory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/instruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>instruments</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teachers</span></a></p>