Cortez Sail chords by Terry Allen

Chords with lyrics

Section 1:
Verse 1:
C majorC      G+G
See how the rain
FF       C majorC
Falls from the sky
C majorC    G+G
Drifting down
     FF        C majorC
From your high mountain's eye
        G7G7
But don't look surprised
       C majorC
You're going home

chorus 1:
      C majorC
Yeah you're leaving L.A
DmDm
On a cloudy day
E minorEm     G+G
Pushing the crowd away
     FF    G+G
You gonna get away today
    C majorC        DmDm
An you turn on your radio
         E minorEm
An' let the wind blow
     G+G
With your rock n roll
     FF
Down the highway
    G+G
All the way

Verse 2:
    C majorC      G+G
Ah but see how, the lightning
   FF       C majorC
Makes cracks in your air
C majorC      G+G
Tearing the clouds
   FF      C majorC
Then closing the tear
        G7G7
Yeah but you're not surprised

Anymore
       C majorC
You're going home
  A minorAm
To Mexico

Section 2:

A minorAm         C majorC  D MajorD
Four hundred years ago
D MajorD    A minorAm
Down in Mexico
A minorAm     C majorC       A minorAm
The Spanish galleons drew near
    A minorAm       C majorC
And the Aztec warriors watched
      D MajorD
From their mountain sides
     A minorAm
Yeah the fear in their eyes
  C majorC             A minorAm
As clear as their end it was near
   A minorAm
Yeah Cortez he come
     C majorC
With his men and his guns
   D MajorD
And a Spanish Christ
       A minorAm
Alive on his lip
    A minorAm
But as soon as he touched ground
     C majorC
Well his men wanted to turn around
   D MajorD              A minorAm
So he burned down the turn around ships
    A minorAm
Yeah he crossed all that water
     C majorC
With his cannon and fodder
  D MajorD
If need be to slaughter
         A minorAm
For Gods and for gold
   A minorAm
An he wouldn't let no man
     C majorC          D MajorD
Talk him in to being anything other than
       A minorAm
Conquistador bold
   A minorAm  C majorC     D MajorD    A minorAm
Yeah Pachuco to Paradi-ise (x2)

Section 1:

Verse 3:
C majorC G+G FF C majorC

    C majorC    G+G
Yeah a Colorado rain
       FF     C majorC
Falls on your California glass
C majorC        G+G
Washing away the hardline
     FF     C majorC
From your California past
       G7G7
Ah but you're not surprised anymore
       C majorC
You're going home

Chorus 2:
   C majorC      DmDm
Cause just out of Cortez
     E minorEm    G+G
Well the radio man says
       FF
That they's a lookin for you
      G+G
They gonna get you
     C majorC      DmDm
But your guns on your map
      E minorEm      G+G
And they're both in your lap
       FF
Besides your Chic's with you
       G+G
So you gonna get through

verse 4:
    C majorC
Yeah see how the lightning
   FF       C majorC
Ah but see how the lightning
   C majorC      G+G
Makes cracks in your air
C majorC      G+G
Tearing the clouds
   FF     C majorC
Then closin the tear
        G7G7
Yeah but you're not surprised anymore
       C majorC
You're going home
  A minorAm