Boney M. – El Lute (Guitar)

Capo 1
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Chords

[Spoken]
G  C
     This is the story of El Lute

G
  a man who was born to be hunted like a wild animal

D                                                  G
  because he was poor but he refused to accept his fate
and today his honour has been restored. [Instrumental] G D C D G D C G D C G [Verse 1]
       G
He was only nineteen and was sentenced to die

                                                       C     Am
for something that somebody else did and blamed on El Lute.
Then they changed it to life and so he could escape
                    D
from then on they chased him and searched for him day and night

 G                      D                    D7          G
all over Spain but the search was in vain         for El Lute.
[Chorus]
       G7             C                                        G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute

                D                           D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me

                   G                    G7
in a country where all would be free.

                         C                                   G
So he taught himself to read and to write it didn't help El Lute

                    D                  D7
he was one who had dared to escape overnight

             C       G
they had to find El Lute.
[Instrumental] G D C D G D C G D C G Gm [Bridge]
          Gm                                         D
Soon the fame of his name spread like wild fire all over the land

Cm
with a price on his head people still gave him bread

          D               Gm
and they gave him a hand

           D                         G
for they knew he was right and his fight was their fight.
[Verse 2]
        G
No one gave you a chance in the Spain of those days

                                                         C      Am
on the walls every place they had put up the face of El Lute.
And he robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood
              D
they finally caught him and that seemed the end.

          G                           D
But they caught him in vain 'cause a change came for Spain

        G
and El Lute.
[Chorus]
       G7             C                                        G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute

                D                           D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me

                   G                    G7
in a country where all would be free.

                         C                               G
And then freedom really came to his land and also to El Lute

                    D                    D7
Now he walks in the light of a sunny new day

             C          G
The man they called El Lute
[Outro]
       G7             C                                        G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute

                D                           D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me

                   G                    G7
in a country where all would be free.
(Capo 1)