Adios Hermanos Tabs & Lyrics by Paul Simon

Adios Hermanos

guitar tabs lyrics

Paul Simon

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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 G Am G F G
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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 C
e|-------------------------|
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 G Am G F G
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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 C
e|-------------------------| | |---------|
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 G
It was the morning of October 6th, 1960
Am
I was wearing my brown suit
G
Preparing to leave the house of D.
F G F C
Shook some hands then adios Brooklyn amigos
C
Maybe some of them had hopes of seeing me again
G Am G
Some even said that my judge-Judge Gerald Culkin-
F
Wouldn't play it by the book
G
Maybe let us off the hook
F C
But, WOH-OO-WOH, I knew better
C G
Afraid to leave the projects
Am G
To cross into another neighborhood
F G
The blancos and the nigger gangs
F C
Well, they'd kill you if they could


AUREA (Strum):
F Bb
Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
C
All over the world
F G C F
Spanish children are taught on their knees to believe
F Bb
Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
C
All over the island tonight,
F G C G
Mothers weep Sisters grieve


SAL (pluck):
C
Well, I entered the courtroom, state of New York
G
County of New York,
Am G
Just some spic they scrubbed off the sidewalk
F
Guilty by my dress
G
Guilty in the press
F C
Let The Capeman burn for the murders
C
Well the Spanish boys had their day in court
G Am G
And now it was time for some fuckin' law and order
F
The electric chair
G
For the greasy pair
F C
Said the judge to the court reporter
C G
Afraid to leave the projects
Am G
To cross into another neighborhood
F G
The newspapers and the TV crews
F C
Well, they'd kill you if they could


AUREA (strum):
F Bb
Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
C
All over the world
F G C F
A Spanish boy could be killed every night of the week
F
But just let some white boy die
Bb C
And the world goes crazy for blood-Latin blood
F G C G
I don't lie when I speak


SAL (pluck):
C G Am G
Well they shackled my hands
F G F C
A heavy belt around my waist to restrain me
C G Am G
And they shackled my legs
F G F C
Hernandez, the Umbrella Man, chained beside me
C G
Then we rode that Black Maria
Am G
Through the streets of Spanish Harlem
F G
Calling old friends on the corners
F C
Just to lay our prayers upon them

Crying
C G Am G
Adios Hermanos, A-----dios
F G F C
Adios Hermanos, A-a-dios


Chords used:
C: x3201x
G: x2003x (or 320003)
Am: x0221x
F: 1x321x (or xx3211)
Bb: 113331