Calexico – Puerto (Ukulele)

Capo 5
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Chords

Title: Puerto Band: Calexico Album: Algiers (2012) Intro: Cm-G
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
Cm                      G
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north

Cm              G
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all

Cm             G
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky

Cm           G
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Cm                                                 G
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Fm                         Cm                         G
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness

Fm                   Cm                   G
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest

Fm                        Cm                 G     G7       
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Cm-G-Cm-G (like Intro) Verse 2
Cm                G                        
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs 

Cm                     G
And when he comes back home he welds into the night

Cm            G
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck

Cm                G
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Cm                  Cm/A
If everything stays exactly the same

Cm/G#                         G
   Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Cm                                             G
Me siento ese pájaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Fm                     Cm              G
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains

Fm                         Cm                     G 
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus

Fm                Cm                           G    G7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Cm-G-Cm-G (like Intro) Verse 3
Cm                   G
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town

Cm             G
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world

Cm                  G
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo

Cm            G
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Cm                  Cm/A
If everything stays exactly the same

Cm/G#                         G 
    Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Cm                                     G
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto

Fm                    Cm                G
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction

Fm              Cm                       G
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche

Fm           Cm                           G
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar

Fm                     Cm                   G                      
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning

Fm                Cm                   G
Codices lost to a language that's been broken

Fm                   Cm                 G    G7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Cm-G-Cm-G (like Intro) Spanish part
Cm      G         Cm          G
Ninguna entrada , queda en el puerto