Abuelita

	  		CAPO: 5 


Intro: C  Cadd9  C  Cadd9 

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I should have known why I loved 
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Driving through the cactus fields 
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Or wearing white leather gloves 
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Admiring the virgin 
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As she stands upon the moon 
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Waltzing behind a second line 
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Or harmonizing the gospel tunes 



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Abuelita, underneath the trees 
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Of Costa    Rica and her dark shored seas 
                    Em7   
They won't tell me about you 
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They don't want me to see 
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Abuelita, you're just like me 



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I do not have your mind 
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Nor your body 
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Nor your circumstance in time 
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But I feel something rising 
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Up through me like a song 
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It's fragile and lovely 
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It's powerful and strong 



C   Em    F              C 
Abuelita, underneath the trees 
      Cadd9 Em           F           C 
Of Costa    Rica and her dark shored seas 
                    Em7   
They won't tell me about you 
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They don't want me to see 
C   Em           F    G    C 
Abuelita, you're just like me 

  

Bridge: 
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Oh, grandmother did you have to say 
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Sometimes life, well, it just turns out that way 
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Waiting for a boy 
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Waiting for a train 
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Waiting on something to make you feel again 


INTERLUDE: C  Em  F  C  Em  F  C 


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All of the girls lined up the stairs 
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Dressed like queens and princesses 
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With jewels in their hair 
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Wrapped up in the old furs 
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You gave to us that night 
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We were the midnight fireworks 
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We blazed in a New Year sky 



C   Em    F              C 
Abuelita, underneath the trees 
      Cadd9 Em           F           C 
Of Costa    Rica and her dark shored seas 
                    Em7   
They won't tell me about you 
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They don't want me to see 
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Abuelita, you're just like me___ 
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I'm just like me