Calexico – Puerto (Guitar)

Capo 5
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Title: Puerto Band: Calexico Album: Algiers (2012) [Intro] Am-E Play like this:
E-|------0---1--0--|-------0---1--0-|-------0----1-0---|-------0-----------|
B-|----1--3--------|---------3------|-----1---3--------|----------3--1--0--|
G-|--2-------------|-----1----------|---2--------------|-----1-------------|
D-|----------------|---2------------|------------------|--2----------------|
A-|-0--------------|----------------|-0----------------|-------------------|
E-|----------------|-0--------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
[Verse 1]
Am                      E
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north

Am              E
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all

Am             E
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky

Am           E
Hoping for a fallen star
[Spanish part]
Am                                                 E
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                         Am                         E
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness

Dm                   Am                   E
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest

Dm                        Am                 E     E7       
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro) [Verse 2]
Am                E                        
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs 

Am                     E
And when he comes back home he welds into the night

Am            E
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck

Am                E
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
[Chorus]
Am                  Am/F#
If everything stays exactly the same

Am/F                         E
   Then nothing can move and nothing can change
[Spanish part]
Am                                             E
Me siento ese pájaro que danza sobre el puerto
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                     Am              E
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains

Dm                         Am                     E 
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus

Dm                Am                           E    E7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro) [Verse 3]
Am                   E
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town

Am             E
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world

Am                  E
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo

Am            E
Why you gotta be so far away"
[Chorus]
Am                  Am/F#
If everything stays exactly the same

Am/F                         E 
    Then no one can move and no one can change
[Spanish part]
Am                                     E
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                    Am                E
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction

Dm              Am                       E
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche

Dm           Am                           E
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar

Dm                     Am                   E                      
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning

Dm                Am                   E
Codices lost to a language that's been broken

Dm                   Am                 E    E7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro) [Spanish part]
Am      E         Am          E
Ninguna entrada , queda en el puerto