Intro: ====== A5 C#5 B5 1, 2, 3, 4... A5 C#5 B5 : E5 D5 Verse 1: ======== F#5 A5 B5 D5 You couldn't believe when they told you that she'd never been 'round here before F#5 A5 B5 D5 Thought she hung out in the Cologne hotel or with the Cubans in the Puerto del Sol B5 D5 A5 B5 And when she smiled, all you thought about was running up Suicide Hill F#5 A5 D5 And nothing short of a bullet could've broken your will Chorus: ======= A5 C#5 B5 And all for the hand of Magdalena A5 C#5 B5 Your boots planted in the soil of Spain E5 D5 Like her tears in the Spanish rain A5 C#5 B5 All for the hand of Magdalena A5 C#5 B5 : X 2 E5 D5 A5 C#5 Verse 2: ======== Clark Gable with a bayonet, you never thought anyone could look so cool And she could handle that Soviet pistol like she learned to do it in school And you fell in love in an air-raid, bombshell sanctioned attraction You were wet with fear, she was wet with passion Chorus: ======= And all for the hand of Magdalena Your boots planted in the soil of Spain Like her tears in the Spanish rain All for the hand of Magdalena Bridge: ======= E5 D5 E5 A5 Your mother could never understand why her son took the call to arms E5 D5 E5 A5 And her father could never understand how she could fall for you Republican charms B5 E5 D5 Magdalena, Magdalena, Magdalena, the choice was never ours... Solo: ===== Over verse chords Approximate picking pattern: e---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | B---5-5~~~~~~>5-3-2-0-2h3p2------0-2-3-3-3p2-0---0h2p0----------------------- | G---------------------------2--2---------------2-------2--------------------- | D---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | A---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | E---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | e----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | B----0-2s5-5-5-5-5h7-777-5555-333-3-2-0---0h2p0-------0-2-3-3-3-2-0---0h2p0--- | G--2-------------------------------------2-------2---2---------------2-------2 | D----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | A----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | E----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | e--------------------------------------- | B----0-2-2s5-5555555-5s7-777-5-3-2-3h5-- | G--2------------------------------------ | D--------------------------------------- | A--------------------------------------- | E--------------------------------------- | Verse 3: ======== In a week and a half you'll be walking down 42nd Street again And you can read it in the New York Times they're plagiarizing Ernest Hemingway And you can touch that spot where a Fascist bullet nearly severed your arm But that's nothing like the way that your soul was scarred Chorus: ======= And all for the hand of Magdalena Your heart broken in the soil of Spain Like her tears in the Spanish rain All for the hand of Magdalena Your blood's red like the soil of Spain Like her tears in the Spanish rain All for the hand of Magdalena The hand of Magdalena The hand of Magdalena