{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1945761,"song":"Mariano","artist":"Robert Earl Keen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1945761-mariano-chords-by-robert-earl-keen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1945761?type=chord","rating":4.72207,"votes":90,"content":"Mariano\r\nBy: Robert Earl Keen\r\n\r\nCapo 2nd Fret\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe man outside he works for me, his name is Mariano[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe cuts and trims the grass for me he makes the flowers bloom[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe says that he comes from a place not far from Guanajuato[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThats two days on a bus from here, a lifetime from this room.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI fix his meals and talk to him in my old broken spanish[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe points at things and tells me names of things I can't recall[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSometimes I just can't but help but wonder who this man is[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd if when he is gone will he remember me at all[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI watch him close he works just like a piston in an engine[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe only stops to take a drink and smoke a cigarette[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen the day is ended, I look outside my window[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere on the horizon, Mariano's silhouette[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe sits upon a stone in a south-easterly direction[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI know my charts I know that he is thinking of his home[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI've never been the sort to say I'm in to intuition[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I swear I see the faces of the ones he calls his own[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTheir skin is brown as potters clay, their eyes void of expression[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTheir hair is black as widow's dreams, their dreams are all but gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey're ancient as a vision of a sacrificial virgin[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nInnocent as crying from a baby being born[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey hover around a dying flame and pray for his protection[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTheir prayers are all but answered by his letters in the mail[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe sends them colored figures that he cuts from strips of paper[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd all his weekly wages, saving nothing for himself[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt's been a while since I have seen the face of Mariano[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe border guards they came one day and took him far away[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI hope that he is safe down there at home in Guanajuato[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI worry though I read there's revolution every day...[/tab]","plain_text":"Mariano\nBy: Robert Earl Keen\n\nCapo 2nd Fret","chords":["Am","F","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}