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El Camino

Amos Lee

RockEasy for beginners3 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

G
Am×
C×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 5th fret
                
 
G            Am 
Well all my friends treated me so well 
           G            C 
You know I'm headed out to that Mission Bell 
            G            Am 
Gonna wash my soul, gonna get it clean 
C            Am            G 
Heading down the border road called the El Camino 
 
Well I've been oppressed and you know I've been opposed 
By a barb wire fence and a murder of crows 
I?m leaving all I've loved and all I have seen 
Heading down the border road called the El Camino 
Heading down the border road called the El Camino 
 
C 
Yeah my hearts grown sick,  
I've got a shepherds crook as a walking stick 
               G 
And I'm heading on. 
C 
My hearts gone blue and I've done wrong by you 
I don't know what to do 
              Am            C 
But I'm moving on, said I'm moving on 
 
One and one is two, two and two is four 
I'm walking back and forth 
On your cracked tiled kitchen floor 
With the orange juice and the sun that shines 
It really breaks my heart leaving you behind,  
It really breaks my heart leaving you behind 
 
And all my ships have sailed away 
The price of this politic,  
That there's plenty of time to pray 
And plenty of time to waste away. 
 
Well to all my friends, that I've loved the most 
You know I'm heading out to that other coast 
I'm going to wash my soul, and I'm gonna get it clean 
Heading down the border road, called the El Camino,  
Heading down the border road, called the El Camino. 
          
 

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Chord set

G · Am · C

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.