Spoken : [Ab] This is the [C#] story of El Lute
[Ab] a man who was born to be hunted like a wild animal
[Eb] because he was poor, but he refused to accept his [Ab] fate
And today his honour has been restored
Intro: [Ab] [Eb] [C#] [Eb] [Ab] – [Ab] [Eb] [C#] [Ab] – [Ab] [Eb] [C#] [Ab]
1. [Ab] He was only nineteen and was sentenced to die
for something that somebody else did, and blamed on El [C#] Lute
[Bbm] Then they changed it to life, and so he could escape
From then on they chased him, and [Eb] searched for him day and night [Ab] all over Spain
But the search was in [Eb7] vain for El [Ab] Lute
Chorus: [Ab7] He had only seen the [C#] dark side of life, the man they called El [Ab] Lute
And he wanted a [Eb7] home just like you and like me in a country where [Ab] all would be free
[Ab7] So he taught himself to [C#] read and to write, it didn't help El [Ab] Lute
He was one who had [Eb7] dared to escape overnight
They had to [C#] find El [Ab] Lute
Instrument: [Ab] [Eb] [C#] [Eb] [Ab] – [Ab] [Eb] [C#] [Ab] – [Ab] [Eb] [C#] [Ab] –[Abm]
Soon the fame of [Abm] his name, spread like wild fire all over the [Eb7] land
[C#m] with a price on his head people still gave him bread and they [Eb] gave him a hand
[Abm] For they [Eb7] knew he was right, and his [Ab] fight was their fight
2. No one [Ab] gave you a chance in the Spain of those days
On the walls every place they had put up the face of El [C#] Lute
[Bbm] And he robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood
They finally [Eb7] caught him and that seemed the end but they [Ab] caught him in vain
‘cause a [Eb] change came for Spain and El [Ab] Lute
Chorus: [Ab7] He had only seen the [C#] dark side of life, the man they called El [Ab] Lute
And he wanted a [Eb7] home just like you and like me in a country where [Ab] all would be free
[Ab7] And then freedom really [C#] came to his land and also to El [Ab] Lute
Now he walks in the [Eb7] light of a sunny new day, he man they [C#] called El [Ab] Lute