Christy Moore – El Salvador (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
  Am                 G
A girl cries in the early morning

Em                       Am
Woken by the sound of a gun

Am                  G
She knows somewhere somebody's dying

Em                 F
Beneath the rising sun

C                  G
Outside the window of her cabaña

    Am                       Em
The shadows are full of her fears

C                      G
She knows her lover is out there somewhere

     Am                    Em
He's been on the run for a year
[Chorus]
F       G               Am
Oh, the soul of El Salvador
[Verse 2]
    Am                    G
The bell rings out on the chapel steeple

    Em                      Am
The priest prepares to say mass

    Am                    G
The sad congregation come tired and hungry

   Em                         F
To pray their troubles will pass

C                     G
Outside the sun rises over the dusty streets

Am                          Em
   Where the crowd gathers round

C                          G
Flies and mosquitoes are drinking from pools of blood

Am                    Em
   Where his body is found
[Chorus]
F       G               Am
Oh, the soul of El Salvador
[Verse 3]
Am                   G
Out on the ranch the rich man's preparing

   Em                 Am
to go for his morning ride

        Am                    G
They've saddled his horse out in the corral

   Em                F
He walks out full of pride

   C                      G
He looks like a cowboy in one of those pictures

     Am                   Em
The president made in the past

    C                            G
The peasants in rags, they stand back for they know

       Am            Em
that Enrico gallops fast
[Chorus]
         F  G            Am
Over the soul of El Salvador