B   8  |  5  |  0    3 |  1  |  0    3 |
      G   9  |  5  |  0    4 |  0  |  2    2 |
      D   9  |  7  |  0    5 |  2  |  0    4 |
      A   7  |  7  |  2    5 |  3  |  2    2 |
      E   7  |  5  |  3    3 |  3  |  2    2 |

E|-------------------------------------------------------|

Intro  x2 (first palm muted)

|Em          |Em          |Em          |Em      Am  |    

E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
G|------------------------------------------------0---|
D|-----------------------------------------------2----|
A|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
E|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|



|Em          |Em          |Em          |Em      Bm7 |    

E|-------------------------------------------------2-|
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------2--|
D|-----------------------------------------------4---|
A|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
E|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|

E|-------------------------------------------------------|__

Chorus

 Em             Am                  G  etc...

E|-------7-7-7---5---------------------|
B|-----8-------8---5-------------------|
G|---9---------------5-----------------|
D|-9-------------------7---------------|
A|-----------------------7-------------|
E|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-|



Em                                    Am
  There's a piano playing on the ocean floor

 G                              C  Bm7
  between Havana and New Orleans

Em                          Am
  Drummin' a requiem for the dead 

 G                               C            Bm7
  and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer

Am                G   Bm7             Em
  Running to the rock, running to the sea

Am                G     Bm7          Em
  Prayin' to the Lord please shelter me

 Am       G      Bm7        Em 
  But the ground keeps shaking, 

    Am     G          Bm7   Em
  water is boiling on fire


  Am        G                 Bm7    Em
  Blood pulsing through their veins 

           Am    G               Bm7     Em
  like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall



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
E|-----------------------------------------------------|

Bridge



(First, repeat a Power Em)
               
                       x
                       x
                       x
                       x
                       2
                       0




Someone lost an eye, 
                       (second guitar : e|----| )
B|----|
G|----|
                                        D|-14-|
                                        A|-14-|
E|----|


someone lost the truth
                       (second guitar : e|-15-| )
                                        B|-17-|
                                        G|-16-|
                                        D|----|
                                        A|----|
E|----|


Trying to save face, 
                       (second guitar : e|-18-| )
                                        B|-17-|
                                        G|-16-|
                                        D|----|
                                        A|----|
E|----|




oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre



(then, repeat the figure)
E|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-14--------------|
A|-14---14-17-14---|
E|-----------------|

Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister

D|-14---14-----14-14\-|
A|-14---14-----14-14\-|
E|-0----0------0--0---|

Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
E|-------------------------------------------------------|______________________________
Intro Riff x2


Em                                                     Am
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square

Em                                                   Am
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"




Am                 G   Bm7             Em
 Sinner in the rock,    sinner in the sea

Am                   G     Bm7             Em
  There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me

Am               G             Bm7   Em
Running past the embassy gates, 

Am          G        Bm7     Em
  and the Santería shrine

Am       G               Bm7     Em
  Blood pulsing thru their veins 

         Am    G       Bm7
like the waves they remember


Bm7                     Em
Crashing on the Malecón wall