El Lute chords by Boney M.

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Verse 1
G 
C 
G 
 (G major)  (C major) This is the story of El Lute  (G major) 
A man who was born to be hunted
D 
like a wild animal  (D major) 
Because he was poor
But he refused to accept his fate
G 
Eb 
 (G major) And today his honor has been restored  (E flat major) 
Ab 
Eb 
 (A flat major)  (E flat major) 

Interlude 1

He was only

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Verse 2
Ab 
G 
Ab 
 (A flat major) nineteen  (G major) and he  (A flat major) was
G 
sentenced  (G major) to die
Ab 
G 
For something  (A flat major) that some (G major) body else did
C# 
C 
Bbm 
and blamed on El  (C sharp major) Lute  (C major)  (B flat minor) 
Then they changed it to life
and so he could escape
Am 
D 
From  (A minor) then on they chased  (D major) him
Eb 
 (E flat major) and searched for him day and night
G 
Ab 
Eb 
 (G major) All over  (A flat major) Spain but the search  (E flat major) was
D 
G 
Ab 
G 
in vain  (D major) for El  (G major) Lute  (A flat major)  (G major) 
Ab 
 (A flat major) He  had

Verse 3
C# 
only seen  (C sharp major) the dark side of
Ab 
life the man they called El  (A flat major) Lute
Eb 
And he wanted a home  (E flat major) 
just like you and like me
Ab 
In a country where all  (A flat major) would be free
C# 
So he taught himself to  (C sharp major) read and
Ab 
to write it didn't help El  (A flat major) Lute
Eb 
C# 
He was one who had dared  (E flat major) to escape overnight they had to find  (C sharp major) 
Ab 
El  (A flat major) Lute

Interlude 2

Verse 4
G 
Ab 
 (G major) No one gave  (A flat major) you a chance in
G 
the Spain of those days  (G major) 
Ab 
 (A flat major) On the walls every place they had put
G 
Db 
C 
Bbm 
up the face  (G major) of El  (D flat major) Lute  (C major)  (B flat minor) 
And he robbed where he could
just like once Robin Hood
Eb 
They finally caught  (E flat major) him and
that seemed the end
Ab 
But they caught  (A flat major) him in vain 'cause a
Eb 
Ab 
change  (E flat major) came for Spain and El  (A flat major) Lute

Verse 5
Db 
He had only seen the  (D flat major) dark side of
Ab 
life the man they called El  (A flat major) Lute
Eb 
And he wanted a home  (E flat major) 
just like you and like me
Ab 
In a country where all  (A flat major) would be free
Db 
And then freedom really came  (D flat major) to
Ab 
his land and also to El  (A flat major) Lute
Eb 
Now he walks in  (E flat major) the light of a sunny
new day the man they called El Lute