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Santa Maria

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[Verse]
AmYou crept out of your bedroom while your sister was asleep
Am/GStared into the darkness on a bus ride to the sea
Turned the Emmusic in your Eheadphones Amup
Till the voAm/F#ices in your head disaAm/Fppeared 
[Verse]
Do you still Amfear that half the battles that you’ve fought in life are lost
And you Am/Gcan’t live in the moment cos you’re frightened of the cost
Of lEmiving your life Elike a pAmop-song 
Now the cAm/F#olour from the picture’s ruAm/Fn to the flEoor
[Chorus]
FDo you know the way to Santa Maria?C  
FSomeone told me south but there’s nothing out heCreG  
It’s just Emfishing boats and Ebad ideAmas
And they dAm/F#rift about like tumbleweAm/Feds.E  
[Verse]
AmIt’s a world of flowers and thorns, light and shadow, love and scorn
It Am/Gdepends more on who you are than where it is your born
But your hEmigh-rise out in EFiddlers GAmreen 
Wasn’t eAm/F#nough to hang on to that dAm/Fream
[Verse]
Of deAmsert sands and foreign lands, highwaymen and thieves
Am/GCenturies old pirate gold buried out at sea
And you Emtold me that you’d gEone to find Amit
Am/F#Off the coast of BaAm/Frbary E  
[Chorus]
FDo you know the way to Santa CMaria?
FSomeone told me south but there’s nothing out hCereG  
It’s just fiEmshing boats and Ebad ideAmas
And they Am/F#drift about like tumblewAm/Feeds.E  

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Santa Maria

by Jon Fazal

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Chords in this song · guitar

Am/G

Am/F#

Am/F

[Verse]

You crept out of your bedroom while your sister was asleep

Am/G

Stared into the darkness on a bus ride to the sea

Em E Am

Turned the music in your headphones up

Am/F# Am/F

Till the voices in your head disappeared

[Verse]

Do you still fear that half the battles that you’ve fought in life are lost

Am/G

And you can’t live in the moment cos you’re frightened of the cost

Em E Am

Of living your life like a pop-song

Am/F# Am/F E

Now the colour from the picture’s run to the floor

[Chorus]

F C

Do you know the way to Santa Maria?

F C G

Someone told me south but there’s nothing out here

Em E Am

It’s just fishing boats and bad ideas

Am/F# Am/F E

And they drift about like tumbleweeds.

[Verse]

It’s a world of flowers and thorns, light and shadow, love and scorn

Am/G

It depends more on who you are than where it is your born

Em E Am

But your high-rise out in Fiddlers Green

Am/F# Am/F

Wasn’t enough to hang on to that dream

[Verse]

Of desert sands and foreign lands, highwaymen and thieves

Am/G

Centuries old pirate gold buried out at sea

Em E Am

And you told me that you’d gone to find it

Am/F# Am/F E

Off the coast of Barbary

[Chorus]

F C

Do you know the way to Santa Maria?

F C G

Someone told me south but there’s nothing out here

Em E Am

It’s just fishing boats and bad ideas

Am/F# Am/F E

And they drift about like tumbleweeds.

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