Steely Dan – The Caves Of Altamira (Guitar)

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transcription and chart Peter Kruger [email protected] [intro]
|F#m7              E/F# |F#m7              E/F# |F#m7              E/F# |F#m7        C#m7  |  
 *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *    *
[verse #1]
F#m7               A9
     I recall when I was small

      Dmaj7           E7  Dmaj7  F#m7
How I spent my days a lone

                   A9 
The busy world was not for me

     Dmaj7             E6  Eb7  Dmaj7
So I went and found my own

                  C#m11
I would climb the garden wall

       F#/B   E/A   C#/F#
With a candle in my hand

    B/E           F#/A#            Dmaj7  C#m7    
I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand
[verse #2]
C#m7   F#m7                A9
           On the stone an ancient hand

     Dmaj7        E7    Dmaj7  F#m7 
In a faded yellow-green

             A9
Made alive a worldly wonder

      Dmaj7          E6   Eb7  Dmaj7 
Often told but never seen

             C#m11
Now and ever bound to labor

       F#/B    E/A    C#/F#
On the sea and in the sky

B/E           F#/A#
Every man and beast appeared

  Bmaj7             Amaj7  A7/C#
A friend as real as I 
[chorus]
   Dmaj9                   Amaj7  
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall

           Dmaj9             F#m7      
When there wasn’t even Holly wood

E6      Dmaj9                   C#m7
They    heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

    Bm7
For you and me 
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
   Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj13 G  C#m7|F#m7        E |F#m7        C#m7| 
we under stood                                              *   *   *   *  *   *   *   *
[verse #3]
F#m7                A9  
     Can it be this sad design

      Dmaj7       E7   Dmaj7  F#m7
Could be the very same

                 A9
A wooly man with out a face

      Dmaj7           E6  Eb7 Dmaj7
And a beast without a name

                 C#m11
Nothin' here but history

        F#/B     E/A      C#/F#
Can you see what has been done

B/E         F#/A#
Memory rush over me

      Bmaj7         Amaj7   A7/C# 
Now I step into the sun  
[chorus ]
   Dmaj9                   Amaj7  
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall

           Dmaj9             F#m7      
When there wasn’t even Holly wood

E6      Dmaj9                   C#m7
They    heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

    Bm7
For you and me  
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
   Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj13 G   C#m7 F#m7           
we under stood                                                
sax:
|Bm7                |F#m9           C#m7|Bm7            E   |F#m7      E6   Eb7 |
 *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *

|Dmaj7     C#m11    |F#/B E/A  C#/F#    |B/E       F#/A#    |G#m7      Amaj7 A/C# |   
 *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *     *
[chorus]
   Dmaj9                   Amaj7  
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall

           Dmaj9       F#m7      
When there wasn’t even Hollywood

E6      Dmaj9                   C#m7
They    heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

    Bm7
For you and me    
    ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
   Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj13  G   C#m7|F#m7              E/F#|    
we under stood                                                *     *     *     *
                              [coda]
|F#m7      A9       |Dmaj9     E7   Dmaj7|F#m7      A9       |Dmaj9     E7   Dmaj7 |      
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|F#m7      A9       |Dmaj9     E7   Dmaj7|F#m7      A9       |Dmaj9     E7   Dmaj7 |      
 *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *     *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *

|F#m7      A9       |Dmaj9     E7   Dmaj7|F#m7      A9       |Dmaj9     E7   Dmaj7 |      
 *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *     *    *    *    *    *    *    *    *
transcription and chart Peter Kruger [email protected]