Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye

Song by Leonard Cohen

"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
Song by Leonard Cohen
from the album Songs of Leonard Cohen
Published	1967
Genre	Contemporary folk
Songwriter(s)	Leonard Cohen
Producer(s)	John Simon

"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" is a song by Leonard Cohen.^[1] It was first released in November 1967, in a version by Judy Collins on her album Wildflowers. The following month, Cohen's own version was issued on his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Cohen wrote the song when staying at the Penn Terminal Hotel on 34th Street in New York City in 1966. He wrote:

The room is too hot. I can't open the windows. I am in the midst of a bitter quarrel with a blonde woman. The song is half-written in pencil but it protects us as we manoeuvre, each of us, for unconditional victory. I am in the wrong room. I am with the wrong woman.^[2]

Feist, Ariel Engle and Daniela Gesundheit performed the song at the 2017 Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen concert.^[3]

References

^ Gilliland, John. (1968). "Pop Chronicles Interviews #141 - Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen - All Tracks UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
^ "Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye", Leonard Cohen: Prologues Archived 2018-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 December 2016
^ "Watch Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen on Wednesday, January 3 on CBC". CBC Arts, December 29, 2017.