Tablature one time one night - Los Lobos

          



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  From: rmvillal@nyx.cs.du.edu (Raoul Villalpando)

  Subject: CRD: One Time, One Night (Los Lobos)

  

  One Time, One Night from the Album By the Light of the Moon.

  

  Intro:  D (11 measures)

  	G (1 measure)

  	D (4 measures)

  

  Verse 1

    

    D					G

  A wise man was telling stories to me

   	  A				       G	D

  about the places he had been to and the things that had seen

  

  Chorus

  

      D					G

  A quiet voice is singing something to me

     A					    G			D

  An age old song 'bout the brave in this land here of the free,

          G	  A	    D

  One time one night in America 

  

  Verse 2

    

    D	

  A lady dressed in white with the man she loves 

  					  G

  Standing along the side of their pick up truck

        D			     G 

  A shot rang out in the night

  	  D			 G

  Just when everything seemed right

  	  D		     A		D

  Another headline written down in America

  

  Verse 3

  

      D

  The guy that lived next door in three o five

  							   G

  took the kids to the park and disappeared 'bout half past nine 

     D		  G	   D			G

  Who will ever know how much she loved them so

  D		     A		D

  That dark night alone in America

  

  Chorus

  

  Verse 4

  

  D

  Four small boys playing ball in the parking lot

  						 G

  A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop

       D			   G

  A car skidded into the rain

  	   D			  G

  Making the last little one a saint

  D		       A	  D

  One more light goes out in America 

  

  Verse 5

  

    D	

  A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well

  							  G

  She hopes for a heaven while for her there's just this hell

  	D	      G	    D			G

  She gave away her life to become somebody's wife

    D		A		  D

  Another wish unanswered in America

  

  *Bridge*

  

  A

  People having so much faith

  		      G			 D

  Die too soon while all the rest come late

     A	

  We write a song that no one sings

  				G				A

  On a cold black stone where a lasting peace will finally bring

  

  Guitar Solo

  A (3 measures)

  G (1 measure)

  D (7 measures)

  G (1 measure)

  D (1/2 measure)

  G (1/2 measure)

  A (1 measure)

  D (1 measure)

  

  Verse 6

  

      D

  The sunlight plays upon my window pane

  					  G

  I wake up to a world that's still the same

     D			   G

  My father said to be strong

  	D			    G

  That a good man could never do wrong

         D		   A	      D

  In a dream I had last night in America

  

  Verse 1

  Chorus

  

  D         G         A  

    One time one night in America

  D	  G	    A

    One time one night in America 

  

  Outro:	D (Until fadeout)

  

  Enjoy	rmvillal@nyx.cs.du.edu

  	Raoul Villalpando

  

  

  

  

   


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 One time one night, de Los lobos 

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