Adios Hermanos tab by Paul Simon

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			     ADIOS HERMANOS - Paul Simon
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Tabbed by: CherryKim, August 19, 2011

This great song is off the Paul Simon album "Songs From The Capeman" and is
mostly sung a capella, but I transcribed the background singers' music and
the organ for guitar. Listen to the record for timing.

Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st fret

Intro (pluck):
    G
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---1-1---1-1---1-1---3-3---1-1---1-1---1-1---0-0---1-1---1-1---0-0--0-0---|
G|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---0-0--0-0---|
D|---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---3-3---3-3---0-0--0-0---|
A|-3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------3-----1-----1-----3-----3------|

    C
e|-------------------------|
B|----1-1---1-1------------|
G|----2-2---0-0------------|  Play intro twice
D|----3-3---2-2------------|
A|--3-----3----------------|
E|--------------1-----3----|


SAL (pluck):
    G
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---1-1---1-1---1-1---3-3---1-1---1-1---1-1---0-0---1-1---1-1---0-0--0-0---|
G|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---0-0--0-0---|
D|---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---2-2---2-2---2-2---0-0---3-3---3-3---0-0--0-0---|
A|-3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------3-----1-----1-----3-----3------|

    C
e|-------------------------|               |                |---------|
B|----1-1---1-1------------|   Repeat over |   Last time    |---------|
G|----2-2---0-0------------|   verse       |   play this    |------2--|
D|----3-3---2-2------------|               |   after the    |----0----|
A|--3-----3----------------|               |   last C:      |--3------|
E|---------------1-----3---|               |                |---------|

G
It was the morning of October 6th, 1960
                 Am
I was wearing my brown suit
                                G
Preparing to leave the house of D.
C
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-Judge Gerald Culkin-
         F
Wouldn't play it by the book
      G
Maybe let us off the hook
     C
But, WOH-OO-WOH, I knew better
G
 Afraid to leave the projects
G
 To cross into another neighborhood
    G
The blancos and the nigger gangs
     C
Well, they'd kill you if they could

AUREA (Strum):
Bb
 Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
       C
All over the world
F
 Spanish children are taught on their knees to believe
Bb
Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
              C
All over the island tonight,
G
  Mothers weep   Sisters grieve


SAL (pluck):
C
Well, I entered the courtroom, state of New York
                  G
County of New York,
G
 Just some spic they scrubbed off the sidewalk
F
Guilty by my dress
G
Guilty in the press
        C
Let The Capeman burn for the murders
C
 Well the Spanish boys had their day in court
       G
And now it was time for some fuckin' law and order
    F
The electric chair
        G
For the greasy pair
C
Said the judge to the court reporter
G
 Afraid to leave the projects
G
 To cross into another neighborhood
G
 The newspapers and the TV crews
     C
Well, they'd kill you if they could


AUREA (strum):
Bb
 Angel of Mercy, people are suffering
       C
All over the world
F
A Spanish boy could be killed every night of the week
F
But just let some white boy die
                    C
And the world goes crazy for blood-Latin blood
G
 I don't lie when I speak


SAL (pluck):
G
Well they shackled my hands
  C
A heavy belt around my waist to restrain me
         G
And they shackled my legs
   C
Hernandez, the Umbrella Man, chained beside me
        G
Then we rode that Black Maria
            G
Through the streets of Spanish Harlem
        G
Calling old friends on the corners
        C
Just to lay our prayers upon them

Crying
G
Adios Hermanos, A-----dios
C
Adios Hermanos, A-dios


Chords used:
C:  x3201x
G:  x2003x (or 320003)
Am: x0221x
F:  1x321x (or xx3211)
Bb: 113331