Conquistador
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# "Conquistador"
# (Gary Brooker - Keith Reid)
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#(Note: this is the arrangement from the first album, not the remake with
# the Edmonton Symphony.)
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#Verse 1:
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# distorted guitar, doubled with bass:
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Gm C7 F F7/Eb
v v v v v v v v v v v v v v
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-----3-4-|-5---------------|-------------2-3-|-------------2-1-|
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* guitar plays higher line on 2nd repeat of each verse
Conquistador your stallion stands in need of company
Gm C7
And like some angel's haloed brow
F F7/Eb
You reek of purity
G Cm
I see your armor plated breast
F Gm
Has long since lost its sheen
G Cm
And in your death mask face
F Gm
There are no signs which can be seen
Chorus:
Gm Eb7
And though I hoped for something to find
Gm Eb7 Gm
I could see no place to unwind
Verse 2:
Conquistador a vulture sits, upon your silver sheath
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
(repeat chorus)
Verse 3:
Conquistador there is no time, I must pay my respect
And though I came to jeer at you
I leave now with regret
And as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no, only all
Though you came with sword held high
You did not conquer, only die
(repeat chorus, 2X)
organ solo:
Gm Eb7 (4X)
(repeat chorus; end cold on Gm)
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers