Adios Hermanos chords by Paul Simon

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

This song is in the key of Db

Intro:
C                          G
Oh al la Oh al la Oh al la ahhh
Am                          C
Oh al la Oh al la Oh al la do do do
F                 G        F   C    D7 F7
Oh al la Oh al la Oh al la ah  hh   Oh Oh
C                          G
Oh al la Oh al la Oh al la ahhh
Am                         Am     F  G
Oh al la Oh al la Oh al la ahhhh  ahhhh
F                 G        F   C    D7 Fm
Oh al la Oh al la Oh al la ah  hh   Oh Oh

Verse:
C                                   G
It was the morning of October 6th, 1960
G     Am7
I was wearing my brown suit
Am7                    C
Preparing to leave the house of D
F                      G        Dm       C    D7 F
Shook some hands then adios Brooklyn, amigos
C
Maybe some of them had hopes of seeing me again
G
Some even said that my judge-
Am
Judge Gerald Culkin-
F
Wouldn't play it by the book
G                    G7
Maybe let us off the hook
F         Am            G
But, woh-oo-woh, I knew better

Chorus:
C                             G
Afraid to leave the projects
Am                    C
To cross into another neighborhood
F                   G
The blancos and the nigga gangs
Dm7    Am
Well, they'd kill you if they could
F               Bb
Angel of mercy, people are suffering
Em  G        C      Bb
All over the world
F    G           C
Spanish children are taught on their knees
C     F
To believe
F                          Bb6
Angel of mercy, people are suffering
G7            C              Bb  F
All over the island tonight
C       G
Mothers weep
Am      G  F
Sisters gr ieve

Verse:
C
Well, I entered the courtroom, state of New York
C      G            Am
County of New York, just some spic
C
They scrubbed off the sidewalk
F
Guilty by my dress
G
Guilty in the press
F               C                     F
Let the Capeman burn for the murders
C
Well the "Spanish boys" had their day in court
G                            Am7
And now it was time for some fucking law and order
F
The electric chair
C   G          F
For the greasy pair
F                     C
Said the judge to the court reporter

Chorus:
C                         G
Afraid to leave the projects
Am                    C       Am7
To cross into another neighborhood
F                      G
The newspapers and the T.V. crews
C     F      C        F
Well, they'd kill you if they could
F                          Bb
Angel of mercy, people are suffering
E            C       Bb
All over the world
C         G            C                  C7
A Spanish boy could be killed every night of
F
The week

Verse:
F
But just let some white boy die
Bb                            C                   Bb F
And the world goes crazy for blood - Latin blood
Cm      G   Am     G       F
I don't lie when I speeee  ak
F     C            C  Am
Well they shackled my hands
F            G          Dm              C
A heavy belt around my waist to restrain me
C                Em  Am
And they shackled my legs
C  F           G               Dm             C
Hernandez, the "umbrella man," chained beside me
F        C
Then we rode that black mariah
G           Am                 C
Through the streets of Spanish Harlem
F                          C   G
Calling old friends on the corners
G       F       C
Just to lay our prayers upon them

Outro:
C
Crying
C               Bm Am
Adios hermanos, a  dios
F     G         C  F C
Adios hermanos, a  d ios