Biography:
Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona based, Americana, Tex-Mex, indie rock, band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while their 2005 EP In the Reins recorded with Iron & Wine has reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi, conjunto, cumbia, tejano, as well as country, jazz, and post-rock.
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Other songs:
- Across The Wire
- All Systems Red
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- Bisbee Blue
- Cruel
- Epic
- Falling From The Sky
- Father Mountain
- Frank's Tavern
- Maybe On Monday
- Splitter
- Algiers
- Alone Again Or
- Ballad Of Cable Hogue
- Bend To The Road
- Beneath The City Of Dreams
- Better And Better
- Black Heart
- Bridge To Nowhere
- Bullets And Rocks
- Corona
- Crooked Road And The Briar
- Dead In The Water
- Edge Of The Sun
- End Of The World With You
- Feast Of Wire
- Flores Y Tamales
- Follow The River
- Fortune Teller
- Fractured Air
- Franks Tavern
- Garden Ruin
- Gift X Change
- Gilbert
- Green Grows The Holly
- Half A Smidge
- House Of Valparaiso
- Hush
- Landing Field
- Lost In Space
- Low Expectations
- Man Made Lake
- Miles From The Sea
- Missing
- Moon Never Rises
- Music Box
- Nom De Plume
- Not Even Stevie Nicks
- One More Cup Of Coffee
- Panic Open String
- Para
- Puerto
- Quattro World Drifts In
- Red Blooms
- Removed
- Roka
- Service And Repair
- Si Tu Disais
- Slowness
- Spokes
- Sunken Waltz
- Tapping On The Line
- The News About William
- The Ride Part Ii
- The Town And Miss Lorraine
- The Vanishing Mind
- Two Silver Trees
- Victor Jaras Hands
- Voices In The Field
- When The Angels Played
- Windjammer
- Woven Birds
- Writers Minor Holiday
- Yours And Mine
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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* Calexico *
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Algiers (2012)
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E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/)
Tracklist :
1. "Epic"
2. "Splitter"
3. "Sinner in the Sea"
4. "Fortune Teller"
5. "Para"
6. "Algiers" (Instrumental)
7. "Maybe on Monday"
8. "Puerto"
9. "Better and Better"
10. "No Te Vayas"
11. "Hush" 4:22
12. "The Vanishing Mind"
13. "Dead Moon (deluxe edition bonus track)"
14. "Mi Maquina (deluxe edition bonus track)"
15. "Ghost of a River (deluxe edition bonus track)"
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Calexico - Epic
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 83
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Live version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_O7YzLnIk
Voir GP
E7sus2/F# : xx4430
Bm/F# : xx4432
G/F# : xx4433
Dsus4 : xx0233
Dsus2 : xx0230
Bm : x24432 and 799777
Bsus4 : 799977
Variation of the Bm and the D.
Bm/F# with some variations : G/F# and finish with E7sus2/F#
D with some variations Dsus4 and finish with Dsus2
[Intro]
Bm Bm D D
[Verse]
Bm D
Nights we hide between the walls
Bm D
voices leading on the ground.
G A
Arms reaching out,
Em G Bm
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
Bm Bsus4 x4
[Chorus]
G A
Hearts holding out
Em G
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
Bm D
Bring my words to all of you
Bm D
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
G A
thoughts laid out
D G
twisted in defense,
Em G Bm
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
Bm Bsus4 x4
[Chorus]
G A
Hearts holding out
Em G
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
Bm D
Send my love to all my friends
Bm D
and if I never make it back
Bm D
To hold you in my arms again
Bm
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
Bm Bsus4 x4
Bm Bsus4 x4
Bm
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Tabbed by:ollorneb 31
Capo 2
[Intro]
Em B7 C G
Em B7 C G
D C G
[Verse]
G
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
G/F# Em
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
C G
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
Em B7 C G
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
Em B7 C G D
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
C G
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
G
When division runs deep and down into the well
Em
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
C G
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
Em B7 C G
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
Em B7 C G
Guarding the port of the future you sold
D C G
Holding on, holding on to no one
D C G
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
Em B7 C G
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Em B7 C G
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
Em B7 C G
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
Em B7 C G
Wait in the shadows down the living road
D C G
Moving on, moving on to no one
D C G
Holding on, holding on to no one
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Calexico - Sinner in the Sea
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
E-mail:
Tabbed by: gueguet33
[Intro]
Play twice (first palm muted)
Em Em Em Em Am
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
Em Em Em Em Bm7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
Em Am G etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
Em Am
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
G C Bm7
between Havana and New Orleans
Em Am
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
G C Bm7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Am G Bm7 Em
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Am G Bm7 Em
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
Am G Bm7 Em
But the ground keeps shaking,
Am G Bm7 Em
water is boiling on fire
Am G Bm7 Em
Blood pulsing through their veins
Am G Bm7 Em
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
Em Am
Clocks stopping at twelve
G C Bm7
on the eve of a forgotten war
Em Am
Luis drivin' a '59
G C Bm7
making it half way across the Gulf
Am G Bm7 Em
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Am G Bm7 Em
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Am G Bm7 Em
Dreams of reaching dry land,
Am G Bm7 Em
talking to the fortune teller
Am G Bm7 Em
Prisoners pounding the jail
Am G Bm7 Em
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
Em
Someone lost an eye,
Em
someone lost the truth
Em
Trying to save face,
Em
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Em
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Em
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
Em Am
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
Em Am
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
Am G Bm7 Em
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Am G Bm7 Em
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
Am G Bm7 Em
Running past the embassy gates,
Am G Bm7 Em
and the Santería shrine
Am G Bm7 Em
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Am G Bm7
like the waves they remember
Bm7 Em
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Capo 4
Chords :
Fmaj : x3321x Alternate with the F
G6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
Am7 : x02213
[Intro]
F Am Em Am
F Am Em
F Am Em Am
F C G C
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
I was just standing turning around
Am G F
That's when they caught me heading down
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Keep on going don't look away
F C G C Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
You're a pretty thought I suppose
Am G F
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
F C G C
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Am7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
It wasn't just me playing those games
Am G F
Still it's my own fault just the same
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I opened up, I let you in
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Am7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C/G G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
I'm walking with the fortune teller
Am G F
I can see my own way home
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
But I don't like this dark road anymore
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Am7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C/G G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Don't wanna be alone for long
F C/G G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
F C/G G C/G
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Em : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
Em
Em Emadd9 Em
[Verse]
Em
I hold your wrist
F#
You bite your lip
Am B7
The push becomes an embrace
Em Emadd9 Em
I touch your face
F#
You close your eyes
Am B7
The embrace becomes a shove
Em Emadd9 Em
I walk away
F#
You follow too close
Am B7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7 B7 Em
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
Em
I see you now
F#
Through a glass wall
Am B7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
Em
But we see it all
F#
We feel it all
Am B7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7 B7 Em
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
B7 B7 B7 Em
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: iingemann
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
Am Asus2 Am Asus2 D
[Verse]
Am D Am D Am D Am D
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
Am D Am D
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
Am D Am D
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
F C G Am
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
F C G Am Am D Am D
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
Am D Am D
Am D Am D Am D Am D
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
Am D Am D Am D Am D
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
F C G Am
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
F C G Am
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
Am D x4
Am Am/G Am/F Am/E
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
Dm C E7
I watched as the world slipped away
Am Am/G Am/F Am/E
Carved into the bark a final love song
Dm C E7
Then I carried the words to the fire
F C G Am
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
F C G Am
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
Am D Am E Am
Ill carry this song with me everyday til I lie down by your side
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Calexico - Puerto
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail:
Tabbed by: pb15994
Capo 5th Fret
Intro: Am-E
Play like this:
E-|------0---1--0--|-------0---1--0-|-------0----1-0---|-------0-----------|
B-|----1--3--------|---------3------|-----1---3--------|----------3--1--0--|
G-|--2-------------|-----1----------|---2--------------|-----1-------------|
D-|----------------|---2------------|------------------|--2----------------|
A-|-0--------------|----------------|-0----------------|-------------------|
E-|----------------|-0--------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
Verse 1
Am E
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Am E
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Am E
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
Am E
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Am E
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Dm Am E
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Dm Am E
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Dm Am E E7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
Am E
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
Am E
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
Am E
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Am E
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Am Am/F#
If everything stays exactly the same
Am/F E
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Am E
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Dm Am E
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Dm Am E
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Dm Am E E7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
Am E
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Am E
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Am E
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Am E
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Am Am/F#
If everything stays exactly the same
Am/F E
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Am E
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
Dm Am E
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Dm Am E
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Dm Am E
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Dm Am E
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Dm Am E
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
Dm Am E E7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
Am E Am E
Ninguna entrada , queda en el puerto
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Calexico - Better and Better
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/)
Capo 5
Em6 : 022020
Em7 : 022030
Em : xx200x
Db : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em
Bm ? F#7
Bm
[Verse]
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Em Bm ? F#7 Bm
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Em Bm Db F#7 Bm
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better and better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G Bsus4(#5) Db F#
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
Em Bm ? F#7 Bm
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better and better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G Bsus4(#5) Db F#
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better and better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G Bsus4(#5) Db F#
Is it better with nowhere else to go?
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Calexico - No Te Vayas
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
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Calexico - Hush
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: szekelymihai
[Intro]
G
[Verse]
G Am
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
C G (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
Em G C G (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
Em G C G/B Am
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
C G/B Am G
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
G Am
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
C G (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
Em G C G (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
Em G
And don't doubt why, darlin'
C G/B Am
In time you will find
C G/B Am
We're alright we were born
C G/B Am G
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
G Am
C G (D/F#)
Em G C G (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
Em G
Tombstone rose
C G/B Am
Growing up and over the gates
C G/B Am
To where our children play
C G/B Am G
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
Em G
C G (D/F#)
Em G
C G/B Am
Darlin' will you say
C G/B Am
In our final embrace
C G/B Am
Before returning 'neath the clay
C G/B Am G
After all that your heart still remains ...
Use variations of the main chords used.
G: 320030 / 320000
Am: x02210 / x02200
C: 032010 / 032030
G/B: 020010
D/F#: 200232
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Calexico - The Vanishing Mind
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: alekstoicovici
[Intro]
Gm A# Dm F
[Verse]
Gm A# Dm F
On the longest day
Gm A# Dm F
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
Cm D#
Knows not when the day ends
Gm A# Dm
Who could care for you
F Gm A# Dm F
Who could understand
[Verse]
Gm A# Dm F
In the room sealed shut
Gm A# Dm F
You're not what you were
Cm Gm
So much sweeter now
D#
That there's nothing left to
F
Remember you
[Bridge]
A# F
It's what brought you here
Gm Dm
It's what keeps you here
A# F
Who could care for you
Gm D
Who could understand
D# A# D Gm C
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
Gm A# Dm F Gm A# Dm F
In the hallway and waiting again
Gm A# Dm F
Here we are, here we sit
Gm A# Dm F
The light turning grey
Cm Gm
Your smile brings me back
D#
To the longest day
F
The vanishing mind
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Calexico - Dead Moon
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
The winter is cold
But not as cold as a hand
Covering your heart
The moon is dead
Like the light in your eyes
Fading and gone
Cast out over the hills
Wandering forest and field
Still no resolve when sorrow calls
And silently takes you from here
April showers
Held up inside
For weeks on end
The moon is empty
Memories have all
Passed you on by
Medicine is slowly running out
Your breath is shallow and frail
The doctor arrives
Closes your eyes
Places two pennies in their place
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Calexico - Mi Maquina
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
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Calexico - Ghost of a River
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Dig my hands into the dirt
Ghost of a riverbed
Find a timepiece from
The water commissioner
In a whole town washed up and dead
Climbing in a crawlspace
Climb to survive
Climbing into our vehicles
Through the tunnel to the other side
I remember when we'd stand
With our feet at the river's edge
Wondering where the current
Would take us if we leapt
I remember when we'd stand
With our feet at the water's edge
Wondering where the current
Would take us if we leapt
Now I can't stop thinking
About how she used to smile
Standing by that tree
Near the ghost of the river
And where we said our last goodbye
Our last goodbye
Our last goodbye
* Calexico *
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Algiers (2012)
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E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/)
Tracklist :
1. "Epic"
2. "Splitter"
3. "Sinner in the Sea"
4. "Fortune Teller"
5. "Para"
6. "Algiers" (Instrumental)
7. "Maybe on Monday"
8. "Puerto"
9. "Better and Better"
10. "No Te Vayas"
11. "Hush" 4:22
12. "The Vanishing Mind"
13. "Dead Moon (deluxe edition bonus track)"
14. "Mi Maquina (deluxe edition bonus track)"
15. "Ghost of a River (deluxe edition bonus track)"
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Calexico - Epic
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 83
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Live version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_O7YzLnIk
Voir GP
E7sus2/F# : xx4430
Bm/F# : xx4432
G/F# : xx4433
Dsus4 : xx0233
Dsus2 : xx0230
Bm : x24432 and 799777
Bsus4 : 799977
Variation of the Bm and the D.
Bm/F# with some variations : G/F# and finish with E7sus2/F#
D with some variations Dsus4 and finish with Dsus2
[Intro]
Bm Bm D D
[Verse]
Bm D
Nights we hide between the walls
Bm D
voices leading on the ground.
G A
Arms reaching out,
Em G Bm
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
Bm Bsus4 x4
[Chorus]
G A
Hearts holding out
Em G
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
Bm D
Bring my words to all of you
Bm D
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
G A
thoughts laid out
D G
twisted in defense,
Em G Bm
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
Bm Bsus4 x4
[Chorus]
G A
Hearts holding out
Em G
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
Bm D
Send my love to all my friends
Bm D
and if I never make it back
Bm D
To hold you in my arms again
Bm
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
Bm Bsus4 x4
Bm Bsus4 x4
Bm
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Tabbed by:ollorneb 31
Capo 2
[Intro]
Em B7 C G
Em B7 C G
D C G
[Verse]
G
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
G/F# Em
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
C G
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
Em B7 C G
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
Em B7 C G D
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
C G
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
G
When division runs deep and down into the well
Em
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
C G
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
Em B7 C G
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
Em B7 C G
Guarding the port of the future you sold
D C G
Holding on, holding on to no one
D C G
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
Em B7 C G
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Em B7 C G
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
Em B7 C G
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
Em B7 C G
Wait in the shadows down the living road
D C G
Moving on, moving on to no one
D C G
Holding on, holding on to no one
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Calexico - Sinner in the Sea
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
E-mail:
Tabbed by: gueguet33
[Intro]
Play twice (first palm muted)
Em Em Em Em Am
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
Em Em Em Em Bm7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
Em Am G etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
Em Am
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
G C Bm7
between Havana and New Orleans
Em Am
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
G C Bm7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Am G Bm7 Em
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Am G Bm7 Em
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
Am G Bm7 Em
But the ground keeps shaking,
Am G Bm7 Em
water is boiling on fire
Am G Bm7 Em
Blood pulsing through their veins
Am G Bm7 Em
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
Em Am
Clocks stopping at twelve
G C Bm7
on the eve of a forgotten war
Em Am
Luis drivin' a '59
G C Bm7
making it half way across the Gulf
Am G Bm7 Em
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Am G Bm7 Em
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Am G Bm7 Em
Dreams of reaching dry land,
Am G Bm7 Em
talking to the fortune teller
Am G Bm7 Em
Prisoners pounding the jail
Am G Bm7 Em
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
Em
Someone lost an eye,
Em
someone lost the truth
Em
Trying to save face,
Em
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Em
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Em
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
Em Am
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
Em Am
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
Am G Bm7 Em
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Am G Bm7 Em
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
Am G Bm7 Em
Running past the embassy gates,
Am G Bm7 Em
and the Santería shrine
Am G Bm7 Em
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Am G Bm7
like the waves they remember
Bm7 Em
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Capo 4
Chords :
Fmaj : x3321x Alternate with the F
G6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
Am7 : x02213
[Intro]
F Am Em Am
F Am Em
F Am Em Am
F C G C
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
I was just standing turning around
Am G F
That's when they caught me heading down
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Keep on going don't look away
F C G C Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
You're a pretty thought I suppose
Am G F
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
F C G C
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Am7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
It wasn't just me playing those games
Am G F
Still it's my own fault just the same
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I opened up, I let you in
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Am7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C/G G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
Am G6 C/G Cadd9 C/G
I'm walking with the fortune teller
Am G F
I can see my own way home
Am G C/G Cadd9 C/G
But I don't like this dark road anymore
F C G C/G Cadd9 C/G
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
Fmaj Am G6 Am Am7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Fmaj Am G6 Am Asus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F C/G G C/G Cadd9 C/G
Don't wanna be alone for long
F C/G G C/G Cadd9 C/G
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
F C/G G C/G
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Em : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
Em
Em Emadd9 Em
[Verse]
Em
I hold your wrist
F#
You bite your lip
Am B7
The push becomes an embrace
Em Emadd9 Em
I touch your face
F#
You close your eyes
Am B7
The embrace becomes a shove
Em Emadd9 Em
I walk away
F#
You follow too close
Am B7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7 B7 Em
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
Em
I see you now
F#
Through a glass wall
Am B7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
Em
But we see it all
F#
We feel it all
Am B7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Am B7 C B7 B7 Em
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
B7 B7 B7 Em
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: iingemann
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
Am Asus2 Am Asus2 D
[Verse]
Am D Am D Am D Am D
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
Am D Am D
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
Am D Am D
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
F C G Am
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
F C G Am Am D Am D
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
Am D Am D
Am D Am D Am D Am D
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
Am D Am D Am D Am D
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
F C G Am
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
F C G Am
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
Am D x4
Am Am/G Am/F Am/E
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
Dm C E7
I watched as the world slipped away
Am Am/G Am/F Am/E
Carved into the bark a final love song
Dm C E7
Then I carried the words to the fire
F C G Am
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
F C G Am
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Am D
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Am D
(To your love)
Am D Am E Am
Ill carry this song with me everyday til I lie down by your side
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Calexico - Puerto
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail:
Tabbed by: pb15994
Capo 5th Fret
Intro: Am-E
Play like this:
E-|------0---1--0--|-------0---1--0-|-------0----1-0---|-------0-----------|
B-|----1--3--------|---------3------|-----1---3--------|----------3--1--0--|
G-|--2-------------|-----1----------|---2--------------|-----1-------------|
D-|----------------|---2------------|------------------|--2----------------|
A-|-0--------------|----------------|-0----------------|-------------------|
E-|----------------|-0--------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
Verse 1
Am E
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Am E
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Am E
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
Am E
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Am E
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Dm Am E
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Dm Am E
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Dm Am E E7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
Am E
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
Am E
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
Am E
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Am E
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Am Am/F#
If everything stays exactly the same
Am/F E
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Am E
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Dm Am E
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Dm Am E
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Dm Am E E7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
Am E
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Am E
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Am E
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Am E
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Am Am/F#
If everything stays exactly the same
Am/F E
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Am E
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
Dm Am E
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Dm Am E
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Dm Am E
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Dm Am E
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Dm Am E
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
Dm Am E E7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-E-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
Am E Am E
Ninguna entrada , queda en el puerto
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Calexico - Better and Better
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/)
Capo 5
Em6 : 022020
Em7 : 022030
Em : xx200x
Db : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em
Bm ? F#7
Bm
[Verse]
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Em Bm ? F#7 Bm
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Em Bm Db F#7 Bm
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better and better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G Bsus4(#5) Db F#
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
Em Bm ? F#7 Bm
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
Bm Em Bm Em Bm
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better and better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G Bsus4(#5) Db F#
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G
Is it better and better?
Em7 Em6 Em G C#dim G Bsus4(#5) Db F#
Is it better with nowhere else to go?
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Calexico - No Te Vayas
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
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Calexico - Hush
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: szekelymihai
[Intro]
G
[Verse]
G Am
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
C G (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
Em G C G (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
Em G C G/B Am
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
C G/B Am G
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
G Am
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
C G (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
Em G C G (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
Em G
And don't doubt why, darlin'
C G/B Am
In time you will find
C G/B Am
We're alright we were born
C G/B Am G
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
G Am
C G (D/F#)
Em G C G (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
Em G
Tombstone rose
C G/B Am
Growing up and over the gates
C G/B Am
To where our children play
C G/B Am G
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
Em G
C G (D/F#)
Em G
C G/B Am
Darlin' will you say
C G/B Am
In our final embrace
C G/B Am
Before returning 'neath the clay
C G/B Am G
After all that your heart still remains ...
Use variations of the main chords used.
G: 320030 / 320000
Am: x02210 / x02200
C: 032010 / 032030
G/B: 020010
D/F#: 200232
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Calexico - The Vanishing Mind
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: alekstoicovici
[Intro]
Gm A# Dm F
[Verse]
Gm A# Dm F
On the longest day
Gm A# Dm F
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
Cm D#
Knows not when the day ends
Gm A# Dm
Who could care for you
F Gm A# Dm F
Who could understand
[Verse]
Gm A# Dm F
In the room sealed shut
Gm A# Dm F
You're not what you were
Cm Gm
So much sweeter now
D#
That there's nothing left to
F
Remember you
[Bridge]
A# F
It's what brought you here
Gm Dm
It's what keeps you here
A# F
Who could care for you
Gm D
Who could understand
D# A# D Gm C
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
Gm A# Dm F Gm A# Dm F
In the hallway and waiting again
Gm A# Dm F
Here we are, here we sit
Gm A# Dm F
The light turning grey
Cm Gm
Your smile brings me back
D#
To the longest day
F
The vanishing mind
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Calexico - Dead Moon
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
The winter is cold
But not as cold as a hand
Covering your heart
The moon is dead
Like the light in your eyes
Fading and gone
Cast out over the hills
Wandering forest and field
Still no resolve when sorrow calls
And silently takes you from here
April showers
Held up inside
For weeks on end
The moon is empty
Memories have all
Passed you on by
Medicine is slowly running out
Your breath is shallow and frail
The doctor arrives
Closes your eyes
Places two pennies in their place
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Calexico - Mi Maquina
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
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Calexico - Ghost of a River
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail: [email protected]
Tabbed by: newg (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/
Dig my hands into the dirt
Ghost of a riverbed
Find a timepiece from
The water commissioner
In a whole town washed up and dead
Climbing in a crawlspace
Climb to survive
Climbing into our vehicles
Through the tunnel to the other side
I remember when we'd stand
With our feet at the river's edge
Wondering where the current
Would take us if we leapt
I remember when we'd stand
With our feet at the water's edge
Wondering where the current
Would take us if we leapt
Now I can't stop thinking
About how she used to smile
Standing by that tree
Near the ghost of the river
And where we said our last goodbye
Our last goodbye
Our last goodbye
Callalily
Calle 13
Callejeros
Callejon
Calogero