News From Spain Chords

KeyF Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays537

News From Spain by Al Stewart is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords Am, F6, Ddim, E, Am/G, F, G, A and Fmaj7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Am      F6   Ddim               E     
I have heard           the news from Spain 
        Am   Am/G         F     G          Am 
Now you say you've mamy things yet to be learning 
        F      G          F          E     Am 
And you don't know if or when you'll be returning 
      E                   Am 
It depends on how everything works out 
      E                Am    F6  Ddim  E 
If it can somehow in Carvajal 

Am      F6   Ddim                E 
And I have heard        the news from Spain 
            Am   Am/G         F     G          Am 
Now you've found someone you don't have to be tied to 
       F           G          F     E     Am 
And he dried your eyes, and later      he lay beside you 
       E                   Am 
As the simple wine of the flow of time 
          E                Am       F6  Ddim  E 
Pulled us out of rhyme in Carvajal 

       A         F 
Into a taxi and down to the airport 
E                           Am      G 
In only the clothes I was standing in 
A                       F   
A scribbled address, a toothbrush, a passport 
E                          Am  G   Fmaj7 
The money we saved in the biscuit tin 
           G         Am 
Running afraid to a strange Spanish town 
F              G              Fmaj7      F6  Ddim  E            
Searching the sands and the shoreline... 

     Am     F6  Ddim                E 
And I have heard           the news from Spain 
        Am   Am/G         F     G          Am 
Now the Winter winds possess       the Southern reaches 
         F    G           F     E          Am 
And the sea folds like a mantle    on the beaches 
         E                         Am 
And the crowds have gone and I've left my song 
        E              Am  F6  Ddim                E 
To be killed alone in Carvajal 
   Am      F6 Ddim   E 
In Carvajal 
 Am        F6  Ddim    E 
In Carvajal 
    	

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