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The Caves Of Altamira by Steely Dan - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            THE CAVES OF ALTAMIRA

transcription and chart
Peter Kruger



|F#m7       |      E/F# |F#m7       |     E/F#   |
 /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /
    
|F#m7       |      E/F# |F#m7       |     C#m7   |
 /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  / 

F#m7               A9
     I recall when I was small
      Dmaj7           E7  Dmaj7  F#m7
How I spent my days a lone
                   A9 
The busy world was not for me
     Dmaj7             E6  Eb7  Dmaj7
So I went and found my own
                  F#7sus4/C#
I would climb the garden wall
       F#/B   E/A   C#/F#
With a candle in my hand
    B/E           F#/A#            Dmaj7  C#m7    C#m7 F#m7 
I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand


                A9
On the stone an ancient hand
     Dmaj7        E7    Dmaj7  F#m7 
In a faded yellow-green
             A9
Made alive a worldly wonder
      Dmaj7          E6   Eb7  Dmaj7 
Often told but never seen
             F#7sus4/C#
Now and ever bound to labor
       F#/B    E/A    C#/F#
On the sea and in the sky
B/E           F#/A#
Every man and beast appeared
  Bmaj7             Amaj7  A7/C#
A friend as real as I 

  
   Dmaj9                   Amaj7  
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
           Dmaj9             F#m7      
When there wasn’t even Holly wood
E6      Dmaj9                   C#m7
They    heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
    Bm9
For you and me          
         Gmaj7 Fmaj7  Emaj7  Dmaj7 C#m7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7  G  C#m7  F#m7
we under stood

|F#m7       |      E/F# |F#m7       |      C#m7 |
 /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /
 
F#m7                A9  
     Can it be this sad design
      Dmaj7       E7   Dmaj7  F#m7
Could be the very same
                 A9
A wooly man with out a face
      Dmaj7           E6  Eb7 Dmaj7
And a beast without a name
                 F#7sus4/C#
Nothin' here but history
        F#/B     E/A      C#/F#
Can you see what has been done
B/E         F#/A#
Memory rush over me
      Bmaj7         Amaj7   A7/C# 
Now I step into the sun  



   Dmaj9                   Amaj7  
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
           Dmaj9             F#m7      
When there wasn’t even Holly wood
E6      Dmaj9                   C#m7
They    heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
    Bm9
For you and me   
   Gmaj7     Fmaj7  Emaj7  Dmaj7 C#m7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7  G  C#m7  F#m7
we understood


sax:

   
Bm7       F#m9             C#m7 Bm7       

Bm7                        F#m7          E6  Eb7  Dmaj7
   
F#7sus4/C#           F#/B  E/A  C#/F#    B/E

F#/A#                G#m7         Amaj7    A7/C#


   Dmaj9                   Amaj7  
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
           Dmaj9       F#m7      
When there wasn’t even Hollywood
E6      Dmaj9                   C#m7
They    heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
    Bm9
For you and me      
      Gmaj7   Fmaj7  Emaj7  Dmaj7 C#m7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7  G  C#m7  F#m7
we un derstood
                             
                                  
F#m7              A9              Dmaj9        E7    Dmaj7  

repeat

transcription and chart
Peter Kruger 
        

We also have 25 songs by Steely Dan

• Aja
• Any Major Dude Will Tell You
• Babylon Sisters
• Black Cow
• Black Friday
• Deacon Blues
• Dirty Work
• Do It Again
• Dont Take Me Alive
• Fire In The Hole
• Gaucho
• Haitian Divorce
• Hey Nineteen
• Home At Last
• Josie
• Kid Charlemagne
• Midnight Cruiser
• My Old School
• Only A Fool Would Say That
• Pearl Of The Quarter
• Peg
• Pretzel Logic
• Reelin In The Years
• Rikki Dont Lose That Number
• The Caves Of Altamira

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