The Caves of Altamira Chords & Lyrics by Steely Dan

The Caves of Altamira

guitar chords lyrics

Steely Dan

The Caves Of Altamira


c#4 c# c# c# c# e c#4 c# c# c# c# e
F#m7 E/F# F#m7

trumpet:
a4 b c#5 e f# a b........ e5 c# b3 a b c#5 a
F#m7 E/F# F#m7 C#m7 F#m7

A9
I recall when I was small

Dmaj7 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7
How I spent my days a lone

A9
The busy world was not for me

Dmaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7
So I went and found my own

F#4sus4/c#
I would climb the garden wall

f#/b E/A c#/f#
With a candle in my hand

Emaj7 Bbm7 Dmaj7 C#m7 F#m7
I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand

A9
On the stone an ancient hand

Dmaj7 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7
In a faded yellow-green

A9
Made alive a worldly wonder

Dmaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7
Often told but never seen

F#7sus4/c#
Now and ever bound to labor

f#/b E/A c#/f#
On the sea and in the sky

Emaj7 Bbm7
Every man and beast appeared

Bmaj7 Emaj7 A7
A friend as real as I
2
Dmaj9 Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
Dmaj9 F#m7
When there wasn�t even Hollywood

F#m/e Dmaj9 C#m7
They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

Dmaj7
For you and me

bb4 a g# f# e e f# c# b3 c#4 f#3
Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7 Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 G C#m7 F#m7
the I zah


trumpet:
a4 b c#5 e f# a b........ e5 c# b3 a b c#5 a
F#m7 E/F# F#m7 C#m7 F#m7

A9
Can it be this sad design

Dmaj7 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7
Could be the very same

A9
A wooly man without a face

Dmaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7
And a beast without a name

F#7sus4/c#
Nothin' here but history

f#/b E/A c#/f#
Can you see what has been done

Emaj7 Bbm7
Memory rush over me
Bmaj7 Emaj7 A7
Now I step into the sun
Dmaj9 Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
Dmaj9 F#m7
When there wasn�t even Hollywood

F#m/e Dmaj9 C#m7
They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall




3
Dmaj7
For you and me


bb4 a g# f# e e f# c# b3 c#4 f#3
Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7 Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 G C#m7 F#m7
The I zah


sax:

b3 d4 f# a b ab G g# e c#
Bm7 F#m9 C#m7 Bm7


c#5 b4 c#5 b5 c#5 b4 a ab........bb ab G f# f# e f# a
Bm7 Amaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7

c#5 b4 c#5 b4 bb b c# eb4 e ab c#5
F#7sus4/c# f#/b E/A c#/f# b/e


f4 ab bb c#5 eb4 f# ab bb.......ad lib...
Bbm7 Bmaj7 Amaj7 A7
Dmaj9 Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
Dmaj9 F#m7
When there wasn�t even Hollywood

F#m/e Dmaj9 C#m7
They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

Dmaj7
For you and me

bb4 a g# f# e e f# c# b3 c#4 f#3
Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7 Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 G C#m7 F#m7
The I zah

trumpet:
a4 b c#5 e f# a b f#........
F#m7 E/F# F#m7

sax:
f#5 c# c# f# e c# c# b4 a b c#5 f#4 f# e f# c#5 b4 a f#
F#m7 A9 Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7

repeat

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Peter Kruger
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