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A fun, easy song.  No capo, comment with corrections, done by ear.
This city is silver in the Fmoon
And mountains heaped with sugar spAmoons
The click and clatter of my fDmeet
Along the croBboked cobbled streCets
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Down past the window shuttered Ftight
The hollow of a haunted niAmght
It's raining now out on the beDmach
The chitter chBbatter of my teeCth
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I'm following the coffee trFail
And drink it black and by the bAmail
The pesos turn to paper cDmups
My fingers treBbmble at the toCuch
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Dm, C, F, G, E, G, F, G, C, Bb, C, F  
Across the MapCocho
Santa LucFia
Barrio Bella viCsta
San CristoFbal
Across the MapCocho
La MonFeda
La Casa de NeCrudaC  
And on the cable car I clFimb
Up to the sacred virgin shAmrine
This city's smothered in the sDmmog
The snippy snBbap of wild doCgs
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Tomorrow is Assumption DFay
I ask just what they celebAmrate
Daniello says he can't explDmain
But he'll be clapBbpin' anywCay
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F, Am, Dm, Bb, C,  Fx2
Ohh...Like Castanets

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Like Castanets

by Bishop Allen

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

A fun, easy song. No capo, comment with corrections, done by ear.

This city is silver in the moon

And mountains heaped with sugar spoons

The click and clatter of my feet

Bb C

Along the crooked cobbled streets

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Down past the window shuttered tight

The hollow of a haunted night

It's raining now out on the beach

Bb C

The chitter chatter of my teeth

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I'm following the coffee trail

And drink it black and by the bail

The pesos turn to paper cups

Bb C

My fingers tremble at the touch

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Dm C F G E G F G C Bb C F

, , , , , , , , , , ,

Across the Mapocho

Santa Lucia

Barrio Bella vista

San Cristobal

Across the Mapocho

La Moneda

C C

La Casa de Neruda

And on the cable car I climb

Up to the sacred virgin shrine

This city's smothered in the smog

Bb C

The snippy snap of wild dogs

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Tomorrow is Assumption Day

I ask just what they celebrate

Daniello says he can't explain

Bb C

But he'll be clappin' anyway

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F Am Dm Bb C F

, , , , , x2

Ohh...Like Castanets

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