Gringo

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