"Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street……" — Leonard Cohen

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of… - Leonard Cohen

"Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea."

— Leonard Cohen

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