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Gringo
Little Feat
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Band: Little Feat
Song: Gringo
Album: Hoy-Hoy!
Intro: C F Dm Bb C Dm C/E C
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Gringo
Fmaj7 C Cmaj7
Southern California bound
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Gringo
Fmaj7 Ebmaj7
Take a stop and look around
F/Eb Bb/Eb Bb/D C/D Fmaj9
(come and lay your money down)
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Ain't no banana republic, gringo
Cmaj7
There's oil deep beneath the ground
Fmaj9 Gm7
Two or three weeks in Mexico
Ab Bb Fmaj7
And you think you've seen it all
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Gringo
Fmaj7 C Cmaj7
Stars and stripes out in the cold
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Gringo
Fmaj7 Ebmaj7
Here's a hand you can take hold of
F/Eb Bb/Eb Bb/D C/D Fmaj9
(even though we're bought and sold)
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Drink Coca-Cola says the sign there
Cmaj7
America has made its mark
Db C7sus4 C7
(they said blood is thicker than water)
Fm9 Gm7 Ab
Something tells me we really oughta
Bb F Fmaj7
Come out of the dark
Instrumental Break: C/E F Gm7 Fmaj7 Bb Bb/D C
C F Bb C
Night long saxophone in the barrio
Dm C
(the chicas will warm you)
F Gm7 Am
They can be persuasive gringo
Bb C
With stars in their eyes
Gsus4 F/G C/G G7sus4
Spend a week in Acapulco
F/G C/G G7sus4 F/G C/G G7sus4
No Esperanto needed there
F/G C/G Am Bb F
Lovers are like broken glass
Bb Dm C/E C
They're everywhere
Dm C
(the chicas will warm you)
F Gm7 Am
They can be persuasive gringo
Bb C
With stars in their eyes
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Gringo
Fmaj7 C Cmaj7
Think of this before you leave
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Gringo
Fmaj7 Ebmaj7
The truth is easy to deceive
F/Eb Bb/Eb Bb/D C/D Fmaj9
(if truth you're ready to receive)
Fmaj7 G/F Fmaj7
Between the open road are your memories
Cmaj7
Tender hearted though they may be
Db C7sus4 C7
(they say blood is thicker than water)
Db Fm7 Bb
(they say all suffering comes to an end)
Db C7sus4
(the common saying for friend is "amigo")
C7 F6
Gringo
Fm9 Gm7 Ab
Red Cadillac at sunset slowing down
Bb Bb/F F C/E F Gm7 Fmaj7 Bb Bb/D
For another look at that border town
Outro: C F Dm Bb