Algiers
Calexico
***************** * Calexico * ***************** Algiers (2012) ------------------ E-mail: Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/) Tracklist : 1. "Epic" 2. "Splitter" 3. "Sinner in the Sea" 4. "Fortune Teller" 5. "Para" 6. "Algiers" (Instrumental) 7. "Maybe on Monday" 8. "Puerto" 9. "Better and Better" 10. "No Te Vayas" 11. "Hush" 4:22 12. "The Vanishing Mind" 13. "Dead Moon (deluxe edition bonus track)" 14. "Mi Maquina (deluxe edition bonus track)" 15. "Ghost of a River (deluxe edition bonus track)" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Epic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : 83 E-mail: Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ Live version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_O7YzLnIk Voir GP E7sus2/F# : xx4430 Bm/F# : xx4432 G/F# : xx4433 Dsus4 : xx0233 Dsus2 : xx0230 Bm : x24432 and 799777 Bsus4 : 799977 Variation of the Bm and the D. D with some variations Dsus4 and finish with Dsus2 [Intro] [Verse] Nights we hide between the walls voices leading on the ground. Arms reaching out hoping for the chance to start. [Instrumental] Bm Bsus4 x4 [Chorus] Hearts holding out waiting for the bells to. [Verse] Bring my words to all of you and and if they ever hear my voice Hold me in your thoughts laid out twisted in defense Hoping for the chance to start [Instrumental] Bm Bsus4 x4 [Chorus] Hearts holding out waiting for the bells to [Verse] Send my love to all my friends and if I never make it back To hold you in my arms again not letting go this time [Instrumental] Bm Bsus4 x4 Bm Bsus4 x4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Splitter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : 85 E-mail: Tabbed by:ollorneb 31 Capo 2 [Intro] [Verse] Through the gardens and fields ’neath the tall green grass You were walking ’neath the moon while covering your tracks Working your fingers down to the skin and stone [Chorus] One hand on the hammer one foot by the door Pushed by the wind fed by the need for moving on Moving on to nowhere [Verse] When division runs deep and down into the well All the coins you dove after lost all their spell Covered in moss walking for silver and blood [Chorus] Out in the cafe working in the grove Guarding the port of the future you sold Holding on holding on to no one Holding on holding on to no one [Chorus] One eye in the mirror the other on the screen Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream Caught up in the mortar bricks and heavy load Wait in the shadows down the living road Moving on moving on to no one Holding on holding on to no one ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Sinner in the Sea ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : 148 E-mail: Tabbed by: gueguet33 [Intro] Play twice (first palm muted) |----------------------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------------------1p0| |------------------------------------------------0---| |-----------------------------------------------2----| |-------------2------2-0----------------2------------| |-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------| |-------------------------------------------------2-| |---------------------------------------------------| |------------------------------------------------2--| |-----------------------------------------------4---| |-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------| |-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------| Chorus etc... |-------7-7-7---5--------------------- |-----8-------8---5------------------- |---9---------------5----------------- |-9-------------------7--------------- |-----------------------7------------- |-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3- [Verse] There’s a piano playing on the ocean floor between Havana and New Orleans Drummin’ a requiem for the dead and the souls hanging on every poet’s prayer Running to the rock running to the sea Prayin’ to the Lord please shelter me But the ground keeps shaking water is boiling on fire Blood pulsing through their veins like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall [Verse] Clocks stopping at twelve on the eve of a forgotten war Luis drivin’ a ’59 making it half way across the Gulf Stranded on the rock stranded on the sea There’s a wall in the ocean between you and me Dreams of reaching dry land talking to the fortune teller Prisoners pounding the jail like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall [Bridge] Someone lost an eye someone lost the truth Trying to save face oh ’neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre Shout me a line sister shout me a line sister Oh I see your hands in the air see you drowning on the other side side [Intro Riff] x2 [Verse] "Chief’s in the parish and the drummers in the square Walkin’ across the fire walkin’ across the waves" Sinner in the rock sinner in the sea There’s a sunken bridge ’tween you and me Running past the embassy gates and the Santería shrine Blood pulsing thru their veins like the waves they remember Crashing on the Malecón wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Fortune Teller ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : 133 E-mail: Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ Capo 4 Chords : Fmaj : x3321x Alternate with the F G6 : 320000 Cadd : 330010 Am7 : x02213 [Intro] [Verse] I was just standing turning around That’s when they caught me heading down Keep on going don’t look away That’s what they tell me that’s what they say [Chorus] Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Yeah that’s what they tell me that’s what they say [Verse] You’re a pretty thought I suppose I’m just trying to hold up as I go And one day I swear I’ll spread my wings I’m on my way to finer things [Chorus] Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Mmm Mmm mmm mmm I’m on my way to finer things [Verse] It wasn’t just me playing those games Still it’s my own fault just the same I opened up I let you in Now these crystal fields are wearing thin [Chorus] Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Fmaj Am G Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Mmm Mmm mmm mmm I opened up I let you in [Verse] I’m walking with the fortune teller I can see my own way home But I don’t like this dark road anymore And I don’t wanna be alone for long [Chorus] Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Fmaj Am G Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Mmm Mmm mmm mmm Don’t wanna be alone for long I don’t wanna be on this dark road alone [Outro] / / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Para ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : 148 E-mail: Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ Em : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003 Emadd9 : 022002 [Intro] Em Emadd9 Em [Verse] I hold your wrist You bite your lip The push becomes an embrace Em Emadd9 Em I touch your face You close your eyes The embrace becomes a shove Em Emadd9 Em I walk away You follow too close The shove takes hold and there’s nowhere to go [Chorus] Take it down Take it all the way Take it down Take it all the way down Take it down Take it all the way Take it down Take it all the way down below the waterline [Verse] I see you now Through a glass wall All that is you stays with you all that is me stays with me But we see it all We feel it all And there is no place we can’t go [Chorus] Take it down Take it all the way Take it down Take it all the way down Take it down Take it all the way Take it down Take it all the way down below down below the waterlinee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Maybe on Monday ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: Tabbed by: iingemann Capo on 3rd [Intro] Asus2 Asus2 [Verse] Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song wrote you a love song Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window And the notes rang down the road [Chorus] I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love Went out walking into the storm into the storm Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to.. ..Say a little goodbye (Say goodbye) To your love (To your love) Say a little goodbye (Say goodbye) To your love (To your love) *GUITAR SOLO* Am D x4 Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down I watched as the world slipped away Carved into the bark a final love song Then I carried the words to the fire Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning.. ..Say a little goodbye (Say goodbye) To your love (To your love) Say a little goodbye (Say goodbye) To your love (To your love) Ill carry this song with me everyday til I lie down by your side ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Puerto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: Tabbed by: pb15994 Capo 5th Fret Intro: - Play like this: E-|------0---1--0--|-------0---1--0-|-------0----1-0---|-------0-----------| B-|----1--3--------|---------3------|-----1---3--------|----------3--1--0--| G-|--2-------------|-----1----------|---2--------------|-----1-------------| D-|----------------|---2------------|------------------|--2----------------| A-|-0--------------|----------------|-0----------------|-------------------| E-|----------------|-0--------------|------------------|-0-----------------| Verse 1 Lupita’s ’gonna weave a path to the land up north ’Gonna find her way through the thick of it all Looking at the lights dancing in the sky Hoping for a fallen star Spanish part Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto Pre-Verse Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness But they landed with only one purpose for conquest Though there’s still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears --- (like Intro) Verse 2 Rigo working one two three different jobs And when he comes back home he welds into the night Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck ’Gonna fly up and over the wall Ref. If everything stays exactly the same Then nothing can move and nothing can change Spanish part Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto Pre-Verse Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears --- (like Intro) Verse 3 She’s talking on the phone in the heart of town To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo Why you gotta be so far away" Ref. If everything stays exactly the same Then no one can move and no one can change Spanish part Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning Codices lost to a language that’s been broken There’s this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears --- (like Intro) Spanish part Ninguna entrada queda en el puerto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Better and Better ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : 133 E-mail: Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/) Capo 5 Em6 : 022020 Em7 : 022030 Em : xx200x Db : x4312x Bsus4(#5) : xx200x [Intro] ? [Verse] There’s letter sh keeps inside list of everyone she knows Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it’s time to go She’s heading north into the haze raise the wire and they raise the rent She’s walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone [Chorus] Is it better? Is it better and better? Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go? [Verse] I’ve seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road She’s in Kansas and Alabam’ Idaho and the Carolines Know I’ve seen her before can’t you recognize those hands [Chorus] Is it better? Is it better and better? Is it better than staying back home? I’ve seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone Is it better? Is it better and better? Is it better with nowhere else to go? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - No Te Vayas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: gwendal.mollr Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Hush ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: Tabbed by: szekelymihai [Intro] [Verse] In the afternoon of orange blossom days Hummingbirds rest above where we lay You say it’s ok no need to fret The weight of it all will ease as we find The balance in each step we make [Verse] Swinging back’n forth in a Palo Verde tree The wind in the needles hushes you asleep And even with the strain your heart remains And don’t doubt why darlin’ In time you will find We’re alright we were born Like the branch to bend and not to break [Break] (/#) Reconcile and resurrect Tombstone rose Growing up and over the gates To where our children play The future wraps round like vines inside these arms [Break] (/#) Darlin’ will you say In our final embrace Before returning ’neath the clay After all that your heart still remains ... Use variations of the main chords used. G: 320030 / 320000 Am: x02210 / x02200 C: 032010 / 032030 G/B: 020010 D/F#: 200232 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - The Vanishing Mind ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: Tabbed by: alekstoicovici [Intro] [Verse] On the longest day The vanishing mind [Chorus] Knows not when the day ends Who could care for you Who could understand [Verse] In the room sealed shut You’re not what you were So much sweeter now That there’s nothing left to Remember you [Bridge] It’s what brought you here It’s what keeps you here Who could care for you Who could understand Know not when the day ends or begins anymore In the hallway and waiting again Here we are here we sit The light turning grey Your smile brings me back To the longest day The vanishing mind ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Dead Moon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: gwendal.mo Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ The winter is cold But not as cold as a hand Covering your heart The moon is dead Like the light in your eyes Fading and gone Cast out over the hills Wandering forest and field Still no resolve when sorrow calls And silently takes you from here April showers Held up inside For weeks on end The moon is empty Memories have all Passed you on by Medicine is slowly running out Your breath is shallow and frail The doctor arrives Closes your eyes Places two pennies in their place ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Mi Maquina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calexico - Ghost of a River ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album : Algiers (2012) Tempo : E-mail: gwendal.mo Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/ Dig my hands into the dirt Ghost of a riverbed Find a timepiece from The water commissioner In a whole town washed up and dead Climbing in a crawlspace Climb to survive Climbing into our vehicles Through the tunnel to the other side I remember when we’d stand With our feet at the river’s edge Wondering where the current Would take us if we leapt I remember when we’d stand With our feet at the water’s edge Wondering where the current Would take us if we leapt Now I can’t stop thinking About how she used to smile Standing by that tree Near the ghost of the river And where we said our last goodbye Our last goodbye Our last goodbye
