• Song:

    Paraiso

  • Artist:

    Smokey Mountain

(use CAPO3) 

   Intro: F5 - Bb4 -; (4x)
Note the open 3rd string, then hammer with mid finger on fret 1

  e | ---------------------------1----- | -
  B | -1---------------------1--------- | -
  G | ---------------3-----3----------- | -
  D | ------0-2----------3---------3--- | -
  A | -3--3----------1----------------- | -
  E | -----------------------------------



     F5          Bb4       F5       Bb4
   Return to a land called Paraiso
     D5            C5           intro pattern
   A place where a dying river ends
        F5       Bb4       F5      Bb4 
   No birds dare fly over Paraiso
      D5     C5             G5 +/F5
   No space allows them to endure
        A5                 D5 , D5 ,
   The smoke that screens the air
         G5 (up)               C5
   The grass that's never there

          Bb5             F5
   And if I could see a single bird
           Bb5
   What a joy
             F5                  Bb5
   I try to write some words and create
             D5         D5
   A single song to be heard
      G5                C5 -pause
   By the rest of the world

      F5          Bb4       F5       Bb4
   I live in this land called Paraiso
         D5            C5           intro pattern
   In a house made of cardboard floors and walls
       F5       Bb4       F5      Bb4
   I learned to be free in Paraiso
           D5     C5             G5 +/ F5
   Free to claim anything I see
  A5                 D5 , D5
   Matching rags for my clothes
  G5 (up)               C5
   Plastic bags for the cold
**********
           Bb5               F5
   And if empty cans were all I have
           Bb5
   What a joy
            F5                  Bb5
   I never fight to take someone else's coins
        D5      D5           G5        C5 - C5 -pause
   And live with fear like the rest of the boys

                Chorus
  F5 C5 , C5 , Bb5                 F5      
   Pa-ra-i-so, help me make a stand
  F5 C5 , C5 , Bb5                 F5
   Pa-ra-i-so, take me by the hand

  F5 C5 , C5 , Bb5     D5            D5  G5
   Pa-ra-i-so, make the world understand

          Bb4              F5
   And if I could see a single bird
           Bb5
   What a joy
             F5                  Bb5
   This tired and hungry land could expect
             D5         D5
   Some truth and hope and respect
         G5  C5       F5
   From the rest of the world

   Adlib: stanza chords

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           Bb5               F5
   And if empty cans were all I have
           Bb5
   What a joy
            F5                  Bb5
   I never fight to take someone else's coins
        D5      D5           G5        C5 - C5 -pause
   And live with fear like the rest of the boys

   (Repeat Chorus)

          Bb4              F5
   And if I could see a single bird
           Bb5
   What a joy
             F5                  Bb5
   This tired and hungry land could expect
             D5         D5
   Some truth and hope and respect
         G5  C5       F5
   From the rest of the world

   (Repeat Chorus)

   And if I could see a single bird
   What a joy
   This tired and hungry land could expect
   Some truth and hope and respect
   From the rest  

   And if I could see a single bird
   What a joy
   This tired and hungry land could expect
   Some truth and hope and respect
         G5  C5       F5 -INTRO
   From the rest of the world
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