################################# # Calexico - Sinner in the Sea # ################################# Tabbed by gueguet33 Any Comment [email protected] Chords : Em | Am | G | C | Bm7 | e 7 | 5 | 3 or 3 | 0 | 2 or 2 | B 8 | 5 | 0 3 | 1 | 0 3 | G 9 | 5 | 0 4 | 0 | 2 2 | D 9 | 7 | 0 5 | 2 | 0 4 | A 7 | 7 | 2 5 | 3 | 2 2 | E 7 | 5 | 3 3 | 3 | 2 2 | _______________________________________________________ Intro x2 (first palm muted) |Em |Em |Em |Em Am | |----------------------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------------------1p0| |------------------------------------------------0---| |-----------------------------------------------2----| |-------------2------2-0----------------2------------| |-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------| |Em |Em |Em |Em Bm7 | |-------------------------------------------------2-| |---------------------------------------------------| |------------------------------------------------2--| |-----------------------------------------------4---| |-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------| |-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------| _________________________________________________________ Chorus Em Am G etc... |-------7-7-7---5--------------------- |-----8-------8---5------------------- |---9---------------5----------------- |-9-------------------7--------------- |-----------------------7------------- |-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3- Em Am There's a piano playing on the ocean floor G C Bm7 between Havana and New Orleans Em Am Drummin' a requiem for the dead G C Bm7 and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer Am G Bm7 Em Running to the rock, running to the sea Am G Bm7 Em Prayin' to the Lord please shelter me Am G Bm7 Em But the ground keeps shaking, Am G Bm7 Em water is boiling on fire Am G Bm7 Em Blood pulsing through their veins Am G Bm7 Em like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall Clocks stopping at twelve on the eve of a forgotten war Luis drivin' a '59 making it half way across the Gulf Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea There's a wall in the ocean between you and me Dreams of reaching dry land, talking to the fortune teller Prisoners pounding the jail like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall _____________________________________________________ Bridge (First, repeat a Power Em) x x x x 2 0 Someone lost an eye, (second guitar : e|----| ) B|----| G|----| D|-14-| A|-14-| E|----| someone lost the truth (second guitar : e|-15-| ) B|-17-| G|-16-| D|----| A|----| E|----| Trying to save face, (second guitar : e|-18-| ) B|-17-| G|-16-| D|----| A|----| E|----| oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre (then, repeat the figure) e|-----------------| B|-----------------| G|-----------------| D|-14--------------| A|-14---14-17-14---| E|-----------------| Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister D|-14---14-----14-14\-| A|-14---14-----14-14\-| E|-0----0------0--0---| Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side _____________________________________________________________________________________ Intro Riff x2 Em Am "Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square Em Am Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves" Am G Bm7 Em Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea Am G Bm7 Em There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me Am G Bm7 Em Running past the embassy gates, Am G Bm7 Em and the Santería shrine Am G Bm7 Em Blood pulsing thru their veins Am G Bm7 like the waves they remember Bm7 Em Crashing on the Malecón wall
