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ADIOS HERMANOS - Paul Simon
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Tabbed by: CherryKim, August 19, 2011
This great song is off the Paul Simon album "Songs From The Capeman" and is
mostly sung a capella, but I transcribed the background singers' music and
the organ for guitar. Listen to the record for timing.
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st fret
Intro (pluck):
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1) Ge|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| (320003@1)B|---1-1---1-1---1-1---3-3---1-1---1-1---1-1---0-0---1-1---1-1---0-0--0-0---|
G|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---0-0--0-0---|
D|---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---3-3---3-3---0-0--0-0---|
A|-3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------3-----1-----1-----3-----3------|
F (133211@1) Ce|-------------------------| (x32010@1)B|----1-1---1-1------------|
G|----2-2---0-0------------| Play intro twice
D|----3-3---2-2------------|
A|--3-----3----------------|
E|--------------1-----3----|
SAL (pluck):
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1) Ge|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| (320003@1)B|---1-1---1-1---1-1---3-3---1-1---1-1---1-1---0-0---1-1---1-1---0-0--0-0---|
G|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---0-0--0-0---|
D|---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---3-3---3-3---0-0--0-0---|
A|-3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------3-----1-----1-----3-----3------|
F (133211@1) Ce|-------------------------| (x32010@1) | |---------|
B|----1-1---1-1------------| Repeat over | Last time |---------|
G|----2-2---0-0------------| verse | play this |------2--|
D|----3-3---2-2------------| | after the |----0----|
A|--3-----3----------------| | last C: |--3------|
E|---------------1-----3---| | |---------|
C (x32010@1) GIt (320003@1)was the morning of October 6th, 1960
Am (x02210@1)
I was wearing my brown suit
G (320003@1)
Preparing to leave the house of D.
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1)C (x32010@1)Shook some hands then adios Brooklyn amigos
C (x32010@1)
Maybe some of them had hopes of seeing me again
G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1) GSome (320003@1)even said that my judge-Judge Gerald Culkin-
F (133211@1)
Wouldn't play it by the book
GMaybe (320003@1)let us off the hook
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
But, WOH-OO-WOH, I knew better
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)
Afraid to leave the projects
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
To cross into another neighborhood
F (133211@1) G (320003@1)
The blancos and the nigger gangs
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
Well, they'd kill you if they could
AUREA (Strum):
F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1) Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
C (x32010@1)
All over the world
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Spanish children are taught on their knees to believe
F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1)Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
C (x32010@1)
All over the island tonight,
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)
Mothers weep Sisters grieve
SAL (pluck):
C (x32010@1)
Well, I entered the courtroom, state of New York
G (320003@1)
County of New York,
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)Just some spic they scrubbed off the sidewalk
F (133211@1)
Guilty by my dress
G (320003@1)
Guilty in the press
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
Let The Capeman burn for the murders
C (x32010@1)
Well the Spanish boys had their day in court
G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
And now it was time for some fuckin' law and order
F (133211@1)
The electric chair
G (320003@1)
For the greasy pair
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
Said the judge to the court reporter
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)
Afraid to leave the projects
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
To cross into another neighborhood
F (133211@1) G (320003@1)The newspapers and the TV crews
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
Well, they'd kill you if they could
AUREA (strum):
F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1) Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
C (x32010@1)
All over the world
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1)A Spanish boy could be killed every night of the week
F (133211@1)
But just let some white boy die
Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1)
And the world goes crazy for blood-Latin blood
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)
I don't lie when I speak
SAL (pluck):
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Well they shackled my hands
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
A heavy belt around my waist to restrain me
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
And they shackled my legs
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
Hernandez, the Umbrella Man, chained beside me
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)
Then we rode that Black Maria
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Through the streets of Spanish Harlem
F (133211@1) G (320003@1)
Calling old friends on the corners
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)
Just to lay our prayers upon them
Crying
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)
Adios Hermanos, A-----dios
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C
Adios Hermanos, A-a-dios
Chords used:
C: x3201x
G: x2003x (or 320003)
Am: x0221x
F: 1x321x (or xx3211)
Bb: 113331
