El Salvador chords by Christy Moore

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Am

this is another good song on acoustic
as with ride on its finger picking through the whole song

Verse 1:
 Am         G
A girl cries in the early morning
Em           Am
Woken by the sound of a gun
Am         G
She knows somewhere somebodys dying
Em        F
Beneath the rising sun
C        G
Outside the window of her cabania
  Am             Em
The shadows are full of her fears
C           G
She knows her lover is out there somewhere
   Am          Em
He's been on the run for a year

Chorus:
F  G        Am
Oh,the soul of El salvador

Verse 2:
 Am         G
Bells ring out on the chapel steeple
Em           Am
A priest prepares to say mass
Am         G
The sad congregation come tierd and hungry
Em        F
To pray that the troubles will pass
C        G
Meanwhile the sun rises over the dusty streets
  Am             Em
Where his body was found
C           G
Flies and mosquitoes are drinking from pools of blood
   Am          Em
Where the crowd gathers round.

Chorus:
F  G        Am
Oh,the soul of El salvador

Verse:
 Am         G
out on the ranch the rich mans preparing
Em           Am
to go for his morning ride
Am         G
they've saddled his horse out in the corral
Em        F
he walks out full of pride
C        G
he looks like a cowboy from one of those pictures
  Am             Em
a president made in the past
C           G
peasants in rags, they stand back for they know
   Am          Em
that enrico gallops fast

Chorus:
F  G        Am
Over the soul of El Salvador.