The Caves Of Altamira chords by Steely Dan

Chords with lyrics

The Caves Of Altamira


c#4 c# c# c# c# e     c#4 c# c# c# c# e
F#m7F#m7      E/F#E/F# F#m7F#m7

trumpet:
     a4 b c#5 e f# a b........ e5 c# b3 a b c#5  a
F#m7F#m7        E/F#E/F#    F#m7F#m7       C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7

       A9A9
I recall when I was small

   Dmaj7Dmaj7      E7E7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 F#m7F#m7
How I spent my days a lone

          A9A9
The busy world was not for me

   Dmaj7Dmaj7       E6E6 Eb7Eb7 Dmaj7Dmaj7
So I went and found my own

         F#4sus4/c#
I would climb the garden wall

    f#/b  E/A  c#/f#
With a candle in my hand

    EMaj7Emaj7     BbM7Bbm7       Dmaj7Dmaj7 C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7
I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand

        A9A9
On the stone an ancient hand

   Dmaj7Dmaj7    E7E7  Dmaj7Dmaj7 F#m7F#m7
In a faded yellow-green

       A9A9
Made alive a worldly wonder

   Dmaj7Dmaj7      E6E6  Eb7Eb7 Dmaj7Dmaj7
Often told but never seen

       F#7sus4/c#
Now and ever bound to labor

    f#/b  E/A  c#/f#
On the sea and in the sky

EMaj7Emaj7     BbM7Bbm7
Every man and beast appeared

 BMaj7Bmaj7       EMaj7Emaj7 A7A7
A augmentedA friend as real as I
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 DMaj9Dmaj9          Amaj7Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
      DMaj9Dmaj9      F#m7F#m7
When there wasn't even Hollywood

F#m/e  DMaj9Dmaj9          C#m7C#m7
They  heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

  Dmaj7Dmaj7
For you and me

   bb4 a    g#  f#  e   e   f#  c#  b3 c#4 f#3
  Gmaj7Gmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7 EMaj7Emaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 C#m7C#m7 Cmaj7Cmaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Amaj7Amaj7 G+G C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7
the I   zah

trumpet:
     a4 b c#5 e f# a b........ e5 c# b3 a b c#5  a
F#m7F#m7        E/F#E/F#    F#m7F#m7        C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7

        A9A9
Can it be this sad design

   Dmaj7Dmaj7    E7E7  Dmaj7Dmaj7 F#m7F#m7
Could be the very same

        A9A9
A augmentedA wooly man without a face

   Dmaj7Dmaj7      E6E6 Eb7Eb7 Dmaj7Dmaj7
And a beast without a name

         F#7sus4/c#
Nothin' here but history

    f#/b   E/A   c#/f#
Can you see what has been done

EMaj7Emaj7    BbM7Bbm7
Memory rush over me
   BMaj7Bmaj7     EMaj7Emaj7  A7A7
Now I step into the sun
 DMaj9Dmaj9           Amaj7Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
      DMaj9Dmaj9      F#m7F#m7
When there wasn't even Hollywood

F#m/e DMaj9Dmaj9          C#m7C#m7
They  heard the call and they wrote it on the wall



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  Dmaj7Dmaj7
For you and me


  bb4 a    g#  f#  e   e   f#  c#  b3 c#4 f#3
  Gmaj7Gmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7 EMaj7Emaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 C#m7C#m7 Cmaj7Cmaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Amaj7Amaj7 G+G C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7
The I   zah


sax:

  b3 d4 f# a  b ab  G+G g# e c#
Bm7Bm7        F#m9F#m9       C#m7C#m7 Bm7Bm7


c#5 b4 c#5 b5 c#5  b4 a ab........bb ab G+G    f# f# e f# a
Bm7Bm7           Amaj7Amaj7     E6E6 Eb7Eb7 Dmaj7Dmaj7

  c#5 b4 c#5 b4  bb  b  c#    eb4 e ab c#5
F#7sus4/c#      f#/b E/A c#/f#  b/e


f4 ab bb c#5 eb4 f# ab bb.......ad lib...
BbM7Bbm7     BMaj7Bmaj7     Amaj7Amaj7  A7A7
  DMaj9Dmaj9          Amaj7Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
      DMaj9Dmaj9      F#m7F#m7
When there wasn't even Hollywood

F#m/e DMaj9Dmaj9          C#m7C#m7
They  heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

  Dmaj7Dmaj7
For you and me

   bb4 a    g#  f#  e   e   f#  c#  b3 c#4 f#3
  Gmaj7Gmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7 EMaj7Emaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 C#m7C#m7 Cmaj7Cmaj7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 Amaj7Amaj7 G+G C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7
The I  zah

  trumpet:
     a4 b c#5 e f# a b f#........
F#m7F#m7        E/F#E/F#   F#m7F#m7

                         sax:
   f#5 c# c# f# e c# c# b4 a b c#5 f#4 f# e f#  c#5 b4 a f#
F#m7F#m7       A9A9       DMaj9Dmaj9    E7E7  Dmaj7Dmaj7  F#m7F#m7

repeat

 transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
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