16TH CENTURY MAN

Year:  2000
Album:  THE ROAD TO EL DORADO
Writers:  Elton John Tim Rice

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	C		 
Oh it's great to see our homeland

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Breathe the Iberian atmosphere

       C
Just because we are Hispanic

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Doesn't mean we're oceanic

      D7
Quite frankly we've had water up to here

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	   C
We've made waves to last a lifetime

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We've been saturated, almost drowned

       C
We are Spanish not Caribbean

       C
We are human, not amphibian

      D7
We'll seek our fortunes on Spain's solid ground


           G
There's no future in the new world

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Only fools believe the tales

       G
Of the gold of El Dorado

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Only suckers set their sails

        C
We have seen the way the tide is turning

C
Cortez is a charlatan

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We are in the ball, discerning

D7
We're anti-diluvian


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Two very fine examples of

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Sixteenth century man

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Two very fine examples of

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Sixteenth, sixteenth century man


C
There are women who are lining

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Every avenue in every port

       C
Now at last we'll get to grips with

C
Things they never equip ships with

        D7
We have sailed into our last resort


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There's no goldmine in the new world

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It's a trick to get recruits

       G
On the boat to El Dorado

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We're returning to our roots

            C
We're going back to land locked ladies

C
Cortez never let them board

       D7
All in all the point we've made is

D7
We don't want to go abroad


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Two very fine examples of

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Sixteenth century man

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Two terra firma samples of

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Sixteenth, sixteenth century man


G
Two very fine examples of

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Two very fine examples of

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Sixteenth century man
(REPEAT 3x)

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Oh! Oh! Oh!

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Sixteenth Century Man!