G  C
     This is the story of El Lute
G
  a man who was born to be hunted like a wild animal
D                                                  G
  because he was poor but he refused to accept his fate
  and today his honour has been restored.

[Instrumental]
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D  C  G
D  C  G

[Verse 1]
       G
He was only nineteen and was sentenced to die
                                                       C     Am
for something that somebody else did and blamed on El Lute.
Then they changed it to life and so he could escape
                    D
from then on they chased him and searched for him day and night
 G                      D                    D7          G
all over Spain but the search was in vain         for El Lute.

[Chorus]
       G7             C                                        G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute
                D                           D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me
                   G                    G7
in a country where all would be free.
                         C                                   G
So he taught himself to read and to write it didn't help El Lute
                    D                  D7
he was one who had dared to escape overnight
             C       G
they had to find El Lute.

[Instrumental]
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D  C  G
D  C  G
Gm

[Bridge]
          Gm                                         D
Soon the fame of his name spread like wild fire all over the land
Cm
with a price on his head people still gave him bread
          D               Gm
and they gave him a hand
           D                         G
for they knew he was right and his fight was their fight.

[Verse 2]
        G
No one gave you a chance in the Spain of those days
                                                         C      Am
on the walls every place they had put up the face of El Lute.
And he robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood
              D
they finally caught him and that seemed the end.
          G                           D
But they caught him in vain 'cause a change came for Spain
        G
and El Lute.

[Chorus]
       G7             C                                        G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute
                D                           D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me
                   G                    G7
in a country where all would be free.
                         C                               G
And then freedom really came to his land and also to El Lute
                    D                    D7
Now he walks in the light of a sunny new day
             C          G
The man they called El Lute

[Outro]
       G7             C                                        G
He had only seen the dark side of life the man they called El Lute
                D                           D7
and he wanted a home just like you and like me
                   G                    G7
in a country where all would be free.