Tablature mariano - Robert Earl Keen

          



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  From: davidb@efficient.com (David Byboth)

  Subject: robert_earl_keen, Mariano for Song Archive...

  

                           Mariano

  

                   By Robert Earl Keen Jr.

  

                  From the West Textures CD.

  

        Submitted by David Byboth (davidb@efficient.com)

        

  

  Capo up 2 frets to play with record

   

      Am                               F

  The man outside he works for me, his name is Mariano

      Am                               F                  G

  He cuts and trims the grass for me he makes the flowers bloom

      Am                                 F         

  He says that he comes from a place not far from Guanajuato

        Am                             G                  Am

  Thats two days on a bus from here, a lifetime from this room.

  

  

  I fix his meals and talk to him in my old broken spanish

  He points at things and tells me names of things I can't recall

  Sometimes I just can't but help but wonder who this man is

  And if when he is gone will he'll remember me at all

  

  I watch him close he works just like a piston in an engine

  He only stops to take a drink and smoke a cigarette

  When the day is ended, I look outside my window

  There on the horizon, Mariano's silhouette

  

  He sits upon a stone in a south-easterly direction

  I know my charts I know that he is thinking of his home

  I've never been the sort to say I'm in to intuition

  But I swear I see the faces of the ones he calls his own

  

  Their skin is brown as potters clay, their eyes void of expression

  Their hair is black as widow's dreams, their dreams are all but gone

  They're ancient as a vision of a sacrificial virgin

  Innocent as crying from a baby being born

  

  They hover around a dying flame and pray for his protection

  Their prayers are all but answered by his letters in the mail

  He sends them colored figures that he cuts from strips of paper

  And all his weekly wages, saving nothing for himself

  

  It's been a while since I have seen the face of Mariano

  The border guards they came one day and took him far away

  I hope that he is safe down there at home in Guanajuato

  I worry though I read there's revolution every day...

  

  

  Guitar: (Steady Travis Pick)

  

  hhhh: Sucessive hammer

  

   Am  F   G

  ---|-1-|-3-|

  -1-|-1-|---|

  -2-|-2-|---|

  -2-|-3-|---|

  ---|-1-|-2-|

  ---|-1-|-3-|

  

  Intro tab....My first shot at tabbing so I apologize if it's all

  wrong.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

     Am               F                Am               G       Am

  --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----3-----------|

  --|------0-1hhhhh--|-----1----------|-----0-1hhhh----|0----0-------0-1|

  --|---2------------|---2--2---------|---2------------|---0--0----2----|

  --|--2-------------|--3----3--------|--2-------------|--0-------2-----|

  --|0-------0-------|----------------|0---------------|--------0------1|

  --|----------------|1-------1-------|----------------|3---------------|

     1   2   3   4 

  

     Am      F        F     Am         Am               G       Am

  --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

  --|-----1--1---1---|1---1-------01h-|----------------|----------------|

  --|---2------2---2-|--2--2----2-----|----------------|----------------|

  --|--2------3------|-3-------2------|----------------|----------------|

  --|0-------3-------|3------0--------|----------------|----------------|

  --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

   

  

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 Mariano, de Robert earl keen 

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