Caves Of Altamira chords by Steely Dan

Chords with lyrics

Song: The Caves of Altamira
Artist: Steely Dan
Album: The Royal Scam
Transcribed by: Charles Seymour


Intro F#m7F#m7 E/F#E/F# (x4)

Stanza 1:

F#m7F#m7    A7A7
I recall...small

   Dmaj7Dmaj7    E7E7  Dmaj7Dmaj7
How I spent...alone

F#m7F#m7      A7A7
  The busy...not...

   Dmaj7Dmaj7 E7E7  Eb7Eb7 Dmaj7Dmaj7
So I went...

     F#sus4/C#
I would...garden...

  F#/BF#/B  E/A  C#/F#C#/F#
...candle in my hand

  B/E  Bbm7#5 Dmaj7Dmaj7 F#sus4/#C
...hide...hall....sand

Stanza 2 as above except for last line:

 BMaj7Bmaj7         E6E6 Eb7Eb7
A augmentedA friend as real as I

CHORUS:

 Dmaj7Dmaj7 A augmentedA
Before...wrote...

  Dmaj7Dmaj7  A augmentedA
...wasn't...Hollywood

E MajorE  Dmaj7Dmaj7
They heard...

  A augmentedA
...wrote it...

  D/G      Gmaj7Gmaj7
For you and me we understood

Fmaj7Fmaj7 EMaj7Emaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Cmaj7Cmaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Amaj7Amaj7 Gmaj7Gmaj7 C#m7C#m7

Fm7Fm7 E/F#E/F#

Stanza 3 as stanza 2

CHORUS

Instrumental

F#m7(V) C#m7C#m7

F#m7(V) C#m7C#m7 E7E7 Eb7Eb7

Dmaj F#sus4/C#

F#/BF#/B  E/A  C#/F#C#/F#

B/E Bbm7#5 BMaj7Bmaj7 E6E6 Eb7Eb7

Suggested Voicings:

F#m7F#m7   [2x222x]
E/F#E/F#   [xx445x]
A7A7    [x02020]
Dmaj7Dmaj7   [xx0222]
E7E7    [xx2434]
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7  [xx1323]
F#sus4/C# [x4x422]
F#/BF#/B   [x24322]
E/A    [x02100]
C#/F#C#/F#   [x9ba99]
B/E    [x79877]
Bbm7#5  [6x667x]
BMaj7Bmaj7   [7x887x]
E6E6    [xx2424]
E MajorE     [022100]
D/G    [xx5775]
Gmaj7Gmaj7   [xx5777]
Fmaj7Fmaj7   [xx3555]
EMaj7Emaj7   [xx2444]
Dmaj7Dmaj7   [xx0222]
Cmaj7Cmaj7   [x3545x]
Amaj7Amaj7   [5x66xx]
Gmaj7Gmaj7   [3x44xx]
C#m7C#m7   [x46454]
F#m7(V)  [xx4655]


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