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Farewell Francisco Madero by Norman Blake

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
Am                F      C
In the ghettos of Mexico City
           Fmaj7        C         G
Beyond the rose-colored palace of Cortez
       Am       F           C
No one dared to walk in the dark streets
         Fmaj7    G E Ab Am
In the reign of Porfirio Diaz


Verse 2:
Am         F            C
By '86 the mines were exhausted
    Fmaj7       C          G
no longer their silver did flow
       Am           F            C
Towns slumbered and slept in the 10th year
            Fmaj7        G E Ab Am
Of what was known as the Porfiriato

Verse 3:
Am                  F         C
From the north came Francisco Madero
    Fmaj7        C            G
To oppose the dictatorship at last
       Am          F               C
He was jailed but escaped to San Antonio
            Fmaj7         G           E Ab  Am
But marched back with his men through Eagle Pass


Chorus:
Am            F       C
Farewell, Francisco Madero
     Fmaj7        C               G
Your like again no longer will be seen
       Am      F         C
Gunned down by General Huerta
   Fmaj7    G   E   Ab  Am
In nineteen hundred thirteen


Verse 4:
Am             F        C
Maderistas not winning elections
        Fmaj7    C         G
Against Diaz took up their guns
       Am       F           C
In the year of our Lord nineteen ten
     Fmaj7   G      E   Ab Am
Mexico's revolution had begun


Verse 5:
Am                      F             C
From the north came the bandit Poncho Villa
  Fmaj7   C               G
A warrior who knew how to fight
         Am         F          C
From the south, the fearless Zapata
   Fmaj7        G  E Ab Am
To ride for the Army of Right


Verse 6:
Am                    F                C
And the next year, in nineteen hundred eleven
  Fmaj7 C           G
Diez to France fled away
       Am       F              C
Maderistas they sought a constitution
    Fmaj7    G     E  Ab Am
For six long years and a day


Chorus:
Am            F       C
Farewell, Francisco Madero
     Fmaj7        C               G
Your like again no longer will be seen
       Am      F         C
Gunned down by General Huerta
   Fmaj7    G   E   Ab  Am
In nineteen hundred thirteen



C pattern while strumming between line 1 and 2, and line 3 and 4 of verses.
   C                  Fmaj7         C             G               Am
           Beyond the rose-coloured Palace Of Cortez      No one dared
e--0---0--------------0-------------0-------------3---------------0--|
B--1---1--------------1-------------1-------------0---------------1--|
G--0---0--------------2-------------0-------------0---------------2--|
D--2-0--0h2-------2---3-------------2-------------0---------------2--|
A--3---------3----------------------3------2--0---2--------------0---|
E-------------------------------------------------3-------3--4-------|

Line 4 of verse
   Fmaj7       G   E Ab Am            Am
   reign of Porfirio Diaz
e--0-----------3--------0-------------0--|
B--1-----------0--------1-------------1--|
G--2-------2---0-0-1-4--2-------------2--|
D--3-----3-----0--------2-------------2--|
A--------------2-2-2----0------------0---|
E--------------3-----4--------0-2-3-4----|

Line 2 of Chorus
        G                        Am
will be seen
e----------------------------------------0--|
B----------------0-3---0-----------------1--|
G--------------1---------1---------------2--|
D----------0-3---------------2-0---------2--|
A-3-2-0---2-----------------------3-2-0--0--|
E-------3-----------------------------------|



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