Judy Collins – Emilio (Guitar)

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Emilio lives in an attic

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Plays a flamenco guitar

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Arpeggios fall out his window

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And roll down the fenders of rusted out cars

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They harmonize with the sirens

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And mix with that racket downstairs

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They wander out into the traffic

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Emilio's misguided prayers

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The moon is Emilio's mistress

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On her there's no turning his back

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Some nights she comes to him naked and cold

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And some nights she only wears black

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When the Fundador flows from his bottle

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Somehow there's always a fight

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When the moon and the lunatic dance seguirías

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Their beautiful music spills into the night and they dance

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In his dreams he can see the abuelas

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They offer him wafers and wine

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Suspicious Emilio measures

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The vino against the divine

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But he never has come to believe them

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Or accepted their heavenly host

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Sabicas and Salvador Dalí

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The saint and the sinner he prays to the most

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Emilio lives in an attic

Am
Plays a flamenco guitar

  E                    E7
Arpeggios fall out his window

                  Dm                    Am
And roll down the fenders of rusted out cars