Tonart: E major•
Intro 1
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B
G#m
C#m
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B
E
B
E
Em
Verse 1
little country south of Mexico
F#
Where the winds are gentle
and the waters flow
Am
only things that blow
E
B
In El Salvador
Verse 2
E
If you took the little lady for
a moonlight drive
F#
Odds are still good you'd come back alive
A
Am
But everyone is innocent until they arrive
Verse 3
A
If the rebels take a bus on
G#m
The government destroys
C#m
a village miles away
A
B
The man on the radio says 'now we'll
E
A
play South of the Border'
B
And in the morning the natives say,
G#m
We're happy you have
C#m
A
lived another day
B
Last night a thousand more passed away
Interlude 1
E
C#m
B
Verse 4
E
There's a television crew
Filming Rio Lempe and the refugees
A
Calling murdered children
E
B
Of El Salvador
Verse 5
cameras 20 feet away
F#
Another man is asking for continued aid
A
Am
Food and medicine and hand grenades
Verse 6
A
There's a thump, a rumble,
G#m
C#m
A soldier fires the acid spray
A
B
The public address system starts
E
to play South of the Border
A
B
You run for cover and hide your eyes
G#m
C#m
You hear the screams from paradise
A
B
They've fallen further than you realize
Interlude 2
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F#
B
Verse 7
B
E
Just like Poland is 'protected' by
her Russian friends
F#
The junta is 'assisted' by Americans
A
And if 60 million dollars
Am
seems too much to spend
Verse 8
E
They say for half a billion
they could do it right
F#
Bomb all day, burn all night
A
Am
Until there's not a living thing upright
Verse 9
A
They'll continue training
B
G#m
troops in the USA
C#m
And watch the nuns that got away
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B
E
A
And teach the military bands to play South of
B
G#m
C#m
A
B
A
the Bo
Outro 1
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G#m
C#m
A
B
C#m
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