Calexico – Puerto chords

Title: Puerto
Band: Calexico
Album: Algiers (2012)

Capo 5th Fret

Intro: Am-E 

Play like this: E-|------0---1--0--|-------0---1--0-|-------0----1-0---|-------0-----------|B-|----1--3--------|---------3------|-----1---3--------|----------3--1--0--|G-|--2-------------|-----1----------|---2--------------|-----1-------------|D-|----------------|---2------------|------------------|--2----------------|A-|-0--------------|----------------|-0----------------|-------------------|E-|----------------|-0--------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
 
Verse 1
Am                      ELupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Am              E'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Am             ELooking at the lights dancing in the sky
Am           EHoping for a fallen star


Spanish part
Am                                                 EMe consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto


Pre-Verse
Dm                         Am                         EBrought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Dm                   Am                   EBut they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Dm                        Am                 E     E7       Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears

Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)

Verse 2
Am                E                        Rigo working one, two, three different jobs 
Am                     EAnd when he comes back home he welds into the night
Am            EBuilds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Am                E'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Am                  Am/F#If everything stays exactly the same
Am/F                         E   Then nothing can move and nothing can change

Spanish part
Am                                             EMe siento ese pájaro que danza sobre el puerto

Pre-Verse
Dm                     Am              ECarried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Dm                         Am                     E The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Dm                Am                           E    E7And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears

Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)

Verse 3
Am                   EShe's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Am             ETo her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Am                  ESaying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Am            EWhy you gotta be so far away"

Ref.
Am                  Am/F#If everything stays exactly the same
Am/F                         E     Then no one can move and no one can change

Spanish part
Am                                     EAmo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto


Dm                    Am                ENo one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Dm              Am                       ENor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Dm           Am                           EQuetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Dm                     Am                   E                      Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Dm                Am                   ECodices lost to a language that's been broken
Dm                   Am                 E    E7There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears


Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)

Spanish part
Am      E         Am          ENinguna entrada , queda en el puerto