Elton John - 16th Century Man guitar tab

16TH CENTURY MAN

Year: 2000

Album: THE ROAD TO EL DORADO

Writers: Elton John Tim Rice

G Bb G G Bb G G Bb G C G

C

Oh it's great to see our homeland

G Bb G G Bb G

Breathe the Iberian atmosphere

C

Just because we are Hispanic

C

Doesn't mean we're oceanic

D7

Quite frankly we've had water up to here

G Bb G G Bb G

C

We've made waves to last a lifetime

G Bb G G Bb G

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

F C G

Only fools believe the tales

G

Of the gold of El Dorado

F C G

Only suckers set their sails

C

We have seen the way the tide is turning

C

Cortez is a charlatan

D7

We are in the ball, discerning

D7

We're anti-diluvian

G

Two very fine examples of

F C G

Sixteenth century man

G

Two very fine examples of

F C G Bb G G Bb G G Bb G C G

Sixteenth, sixteenth century man

C

There are women who are lining

C G Bb G G Bb G

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

G

There's no goldmine in the new world

F C G

It's a trick to get recruits

G

On the boat to El Dorado

F C G

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

G

Two very fine examples of

F C G

Sixteenth century man

G

Two terra firma samples of

F C G Bb G G Bb G

Sixteenth, sixteenth century man

G

Two very fine examples of

G

Two very fine examples of

F C G

Sixteenth century man

(REPEAT 3x)

G Bb G G Bb G F

C

Oh! Oh! Oh!

G Bb G

Sixteenth Century Man!