🎶 El Lute

Capo 1
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He was [Db]only nineteen and was sentenced to die
for something that somebody else did, and blamed on El [A#]lute
[Bb]Then they changed it to life, and so he could escape
From then on they [Cb]chased him, and searched for him day and night [Db] all over Spain
But the [D7]search was in vain for El [Db] Lute

[G7] He had only seen the [A#]dark side of life, the man they called El [Db] Lute
And he wanted a [D7] home just like you and like me in a country where [Db] all would be free
[G7] So he taught himself to [A#]read and to write, it didn't help El [Db] Lute
He was one who had [D7] dared to escape overnight
They had to [A#]find El [Db] Lute

Soon the [F#]fame of his name, spread like wild fire all [D7]over the land
[G]with a price on his head people still gave him bread and they [D7] gave him a hand
[F#] For they [D7]knew he was right, and his [Db] fight was their fight

No one [Db]gave you a chance in the Spain of those days
On the walls every place they had put up the face of El [A#] Lute
And he [Bb]robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood
They finally [D7] caught him and that seemed the end but they [Db] caught him in vain
‘cause a [Cb] change came for Spain and El [Db] Lute

[G7] He had only seen the [A#] dark side of life, the man they called El [Db] Lute
And he wanted a [D7] home just like you and like me in a country where [Db] all would be free
[G7] And then freedom really [A#] came to his land and also to El [Db] Lute
Now he walks in the [D7] light of a sunny new day, he man they [A#] called El [Db] Lute⠀⠀