Calexico – Puerto (Ukulele)
Capo 5
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Title: Puerto
Band: Calexico
Album: Algiers (2012)
Intro: Cm-G
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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