Sinner In The Sea tab by Calexico
Guitar Tab
Tuning: Standard EBGDAE
Difficulty: Novice
Sinner in the Sea by Calexico
Submitted by aliz
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 |
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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--------------|
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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
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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
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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
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