Adios Hermanos tab by 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):
  G+G
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---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+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 MajorD|---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 augmentedA|-3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------------------3-----1-----1-----3-----3------|

  C majorC
e|-------------------------|
BB|----1-1---1-1------------|
G+G|----2-2---0-0------------| Play intro twice
D MajorD|----3-3---2-2------------|
A augmentedA|--3-----3----------------|
E MajorE|--------------1-----3----|

SAL (pluck):
  G+G
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---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+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 MajorD|---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 augmentedA|-3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------------------3-----1-----1-----3-----3------|

  C majorC
e|-------------------------|        |        |---------|
BB|----1-1---1-1------------|  Repeat over |  Last time  |---------|
G+G|----2-2---0-0------------|  verse    |  play this  |------2--|
D MajorD|----3-3---2-2------------|        |  after the  |----0----|
A augmentedA|--3-----3----------------|        |  last C:   |--3------|
E MajorE|---------------1-----3---|        |        |---------|

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

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

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


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


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

Crying
G+G
Adios Hermanos, A-----dios
C majorC
Adios Hermanos, A-dios


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

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