Puppets

Album: Thanks for the Dance (2019)
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Songfacts®:

  • The first line of this spoken-word track opens with an evocation of fascism. "German puppets burned the Jews," Cohen intones, before bringing things up-to-date.

    Puppet Presidents command
    Puppet troops to burn the land


    And closer to home.

    Puppet lovers in their bliss
    Turn away from all of this
    Puppet reader shakes his head
    Takes his puppet wife to bed
  • Cohen's litany of accusation is offset by a chorus from the combined voices of the Shaar Hashomayim choir and Cantus Domus from Berlin - "Germans and Jews singing together as if in a classical Greek play," producer Adam Cohen (Leonard's son) puts it to The Guardian.

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