El Lute chords by Boney M.

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Spoken:
G+G C majorC
   This is the story of El Lute
G+G
 a man who was born to be hunted like a wild animal
D MajorD                         G+G
 because he was poor but he refused to accept his fate
 and today his honour has been restored.

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
D MajorD C majorC G+G
D MajorD C majorC G+G

Verse 1:
    G+G
He was only nineteen and was sentenced to die
                            C majorC   A minorAm
for something that somebody else did and blamed on El Lute.
Then they changed it to life and so he could escape
          D MajorD
from then on they chased him and searched for him day and night
 G+G           D MajorD          D7D7     G+G
all over Spain but the search was in vain     for El Lute.

Chorus:
    G7G7       C majorC                    G+G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute
        D MajorD              D7D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me
          G+G          G7G7
in a country where all would be free.
             C majorC                  G+G
So he taught himself to read and to write it didn't help El Lute
          D MajorD         D7D7
he was one who had dared to escape overnight
       C majorC    G+G
they had to find El Lute.

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
D MajorD C majorC G+G
D MajorD C majorC G+G
G minorGm

Bridge:
     G minorGm                     D MajorD
Soon the fame of his name spread like wild fire all over the land
C minorCm
with a price on his head people still gave him bread
     D MajorD        G minorGm
and they gave him a hand
      D MajorD             G+G
for they knew he was right and his fight was their fight.

Verse 2:
    G+G
No one gave you a chance in the Spain of those days
                             C majorC   A minorAm
on the walls every place they had put up the face of El Lute.
And he robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood
       D MajorD
they finally caught him and that seemed the end.
     G+G              D MajorD
But they caught him in vain 'cause a change came for Spain
    G+G
and El Lute.

Chorus:
    G7G7       C majorC                    G+G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute
        D MajorD              D7D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me
          G+G          G7G7
in a country where all would be free.
             C majorC                G+G
And then freedom really came to his land and also to El Lute
          D MajorD          D7D7
Now he walks in the light of a sunny new day
       C majorC     G+G
The man they called El Lute

Outro:
    G7G7       C majorC                    G+G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute
        D MajorD              D7D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me
          G+G          G7G7
in a country where all would be free.

(Capo 1)