Chord/Tab song: Puerto

Title: Puerto
Band: Calexico
Album: Algiers (2012)

Capo 5th Fret

Intro: Am-E

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
[Am]Lupita's 'gonna weave a [E]path to the land up north
[Am]'Gonna find her [E]way through the thick of it all
[Am]Looking at the [E]lights dancing in the sky
[Am]Hoping for a [E]fallen star

Spanish part
[Am]Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto[E]

Pre-Verse
[Dm]Brought them gold from the [Am]country to help cure their [E]illness
[Dm]But they landed with [Am]only one purpose for [E]conquest
[Dm]Though there's still this [Am]wave of unsettling [E]hunger[E7] that never disappears

Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)

Verse 2
[Am]Rigo working one, [E]two, three different jobs
[Am]And when he comes back [E]home he welds into the night
[Am]Builds an air [E]balloon for his pickup truck
[Am]'Gonna fly up and [E]over the wall
Ref.
[Am]If everything stays [Am/F#]exactly the same
[Am/F] Then nothing can move and [E]nothing can change

Spanish part
[Am]Me siento ese pjaro que danza sobre el puerto[E]

Pre-Verse
[Dm]Carried ships from the [Am]sea up over the [E]mountains
[Dm]The warriors fell to their [Am]knees by the invisible [E]virus
[Dm]And still you can [Am]feel this wave of unsettling [E]anger[E7] that never disappears

Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)

Verse 3
[Am]She's talking on the [E]phone in the heart of town
[Am]To her Bachata [E]Mama in the heart of the world
[Am]Saying "please come [E]back to Santo Domingo
[Am]Why you gotta [E]be so far away"

Ref.
[Am]If everything stays [Am/F#]exactly the same
[Am/F] Then no one can move and [E]no one can change

Spanish part
[Am]Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto[E]

[Dm]No one fortelling the [Am]depth and type of [E]destruction
[Dm]Nor the sadness [Am]trapped on the tongue of [E]Malinche
[Dm]Quetzalcoatl [Am]feathers strewn out over the [E]altar
[Dm]Blood running down the [Am]pyramid steps in the [E]morning
[Dm]Codices lost to a [Am]language that's been [E]broken
[Dm]There's this growing [Am]sense of impending [E]anger[E7] that never disappears

Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)

Spanish part
[Am]Ninguna [E]entrada , [Am]queda en el [E]puerto