Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz Chords by David Rovics
Tempo:
108 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
Ab
Fm
F
Cm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Eb] [Ab] [Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
When we look at history [Ab] and how it's all [Eb]
unwound,
there are few people on this planet that [Ab] have been more [Eb] tightly bound
with the liberation [Ab] of our troubled [Eb] human race
than the man from Santiago [Ab] with the beard [Eb] upon his face.
[F] Dressed in green [Eb] [Ab] fatigues that he wore most of his years
[Eb] as he led his country longer than any of his peers,
and [F] few men have been [Eb] vilified [Ab] more often in the [Eb] news
than Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
Born into a country of [Ab] dengue and [Eb] despair,
ruled by foreign armies ever [Ab] since [Eb] Columbus got there,
he'd reject his privilege and join humanity.
Forced to choose between [Ab] his species [Eb] and his family,
[Fm] and when legal means had [G] failed to [Ab] stop the suffering he saw,
[Eb] he decided it was high time [D] to work [Gm] outside the [Cm] law.
He organized a revolution [Ab] with the rifle and the fuse,
[Eb] [Bb] Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
When you win a revolution, [Ab] you might stop when you're [Eb] ahead,
but in the Havana Declaration, the [Ab] revolutionaries [Eb] said,
Wherever people, anywhere, [Ab] are bound to be [Eb] oppressed,
as long as we have [Ab] hearts that beat [Eb] within our chests,
[F] it is our duty to [Eb] support them.
[Ab] And Cuba sent their [Eb] troops, and Cuba sent their doctors,
[Dm] in ever [Eb] larger groups, and [Fm] their leader was the one
[Eb] in the [Ab] tracksuit and running shoes,
[Eb] [Fm] Comandante Fidel [Eb] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
It could have been someone else, [Ab] and he might be the first [Eb] to say,
the movement makes the leader, [Ab] not the [Eb] other way,
but around the world right now [Ab] sitting at their [Eb] dinner plates.
There are people praising [Ab] this man who stood up to [Eb] the United States,
[F] and lived life as a beacon [Eb] [Ab] for a new society,
[Eb] with housing, health care, [D] education, and the human [Eb] right to dignity,
[Fm] central to the [Eb] vision [Ab] for which he stood accused,
[Eb] Comandante [Fm] Fidel Alejandro [Eb] [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb] I can't predict the future, [Ab] but if the past is any [Eb] indication,
many more will follow [Ab] the trail of the little [Eb] Cuban nation.
And soon in Havana, [Ab] I hope that we [Eb] may see,
a statue of the [Ab] man to go beside José [Eb] Martí,
[F] but wherefore goes [Eb] Havana, [Ab] or Angola, Mozambique,
[Eb] I'll always remember the [Bb] big [Gm] man's rosy [Fm] cheeks,
if the world could vote [Eb] for a leader, [Ab] how many just might choose,
[Eb] [Fm] Comandante Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb] Comandante [Fm] Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
When we look at history [Ab] and how it's all [Eb]
unwound,
there are few people on this planet that [Ab] have been more [Eb] tightly bound
with the liberation [Ab] of our troubled [Eb] human race
than the man from Santiago [Ab] with the beard [Eb] upon his face.
[F] Dressed in green [Eb] [Ab] fatigues that he wore most of his years
[Eb] as he led his country longer than any of his peers,
and [F] few men have been [Eb] vilified [Ab] more often in the [Eb] news
than Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
Born into a country of [Ab] dengue and [Eb] despair,
ruled by foreign armies ever [Ab] since [Eb] Columbus got there,
he'd reject his privilege and join humanity.
Forced to choose between [Ab] his species [Eb] and his family,
[Fm] and when legal means had [G] failed to [Ab] stop the suffering he saw,
[Eb] he decided it was high time [D] to work [Gm] outside the [Cm] law.
He organized a revolution [Ab] with the rifle and the fuse,
[Eb] [Bb] Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
When you win a revolution, [Ab] you might stop when you're [Eb] ahead,
but in the Havana Declaration, the [Ab] revolutionaries [Eb] said,
Wherever people, anywhere, [Ab] are bound to be [Eb] oppressed,
as long as we have [Ab] hearts that beat [Eb] within our chests,
[F] it is our duty to [Eb] support them.
[Ab] And Cuba sent their [Eb] troops, and Cuba sent their doctors,
[Dm] in ever [Eb] larger groups, and [Fm] their leader was the one
[Eb] in the [Ab] tracksuit and running shoes,
[Eb] [Fm] Comandante Fidel [Eb] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
It could have been someone else, [Ab] and he might be the first [Eb] to say,
the movement makes the leader, [Ab] not the [Eb] other way,
but around the world right now [Ab] sitting at their [Eb] dinner plates.
There are people praising [Ab] this man who stood up to [Eb] the United States,
[F] and lived life as a beacon [Eb] [Ab] for a new society,
[Eb] with housing, health care, [D] education, and the human [Eb] right to dignity,
[Fm] central to the [Eb] vision [Ab] for which he stood accused,
[Eb] Comandante [Fm] Fidel Alejandro [Eb] [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb] I can't predict the future, [Ab] but if the past is any [Eb] indication,
many more will follow [Ab] the trail of the little [Eb] Cuban nation.
And soon in Havana, [Ab] I hope that we [Eb] may see,
a statue of the [Ab] man to go beside José [Eb] Martí,
[F] but wherefore goes [Eb] Havana, [Ab] or Angola, Mozambique,
[Eb] I'll always remember the [Bb] big [Gm] man's rosy [Fm] cheeks,
if the world could vote [Eb] for a leader, [Ab] how many just might choose,
[Eb] [Fm] Comandante Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb] Comandante [Fm] Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
[Eb]
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
When we look at history [Ab] and how it's all [Eb]
unwound,
there are few people on this planet that [Ab] have been more [Eb] tightly bound
with the liberation [Ab] of our troubled [Eb] human race
than the man from Santiago [Ab] with the beard [Eb] upon his face.
[F] Dressed in green [Eb] [Ab] fatigues that he wore most of his years
[Eb] as he led his country longer than any of his peers,
and [F] few men have been [Eb] vilified [Ab] more often in the [Eb] news
than Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
Born into a country of [Ab] dengue and [Eb] despair,
ruled by foreign armies ever [Ab] since [Eb] Columbus got there,
he'd reject his privilege and join humanity.
_ Forced to choose between [Ab] his species [Eb] and his family,
[Fm] and when legal means had [G] failed to [Ab] stop the suffering he saw,
[Eb] he decided it was high time [D] to work [Gm] outside the [Cm] law.
He organized a revolution [Ab] with the rifle and the fuse,
[Eb] _ [Bb] Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
When you win a revolution, [Ab] you might stop when you're [Eb] ahead,
but in the Havana Declaration, the [Ab] revolutionaries [Eb] said,
Wherever people, anywhere, [Ab] are bound to be [Eb] oppressed,
as long as we have [Ab] hearts that beat [Eb] within our chests,
[F] it is our duty to [Eb] support them.
[Ab] And Cuba sent their [Eb] troops, and Cuba sent their doctors,
[Dm] in ever [Eb] larger groups, and [Fm] their leader was the one
[Eb] in the [Ab] tracksuit and running shoes,
[Eb] _ [Fm] Comandante Fidel [Eb] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
It could have been someone else, [Ab] and he might be the first [Eb] to say,
the movement makes the leader, [Ab] not the [Eb] other way,
but around the world right now [Ab] sitting at their [Eb] dinner plates.
There are people praising [Ab] this man who stood up to [Eb] the United States,
[F] and lived life as a beacon [Eb] [Ab] for a new society,
[Eb] with housing, health care, [D] education, and the human [Eb] right to dignity,
[Fm] central to the [Eb] vision [Ab] for which he stood accused,
[Eb] _ Comandante [Fm] Fidel Alejandro [Eb] [Ab] Castro Ruz. _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I can't predict the future, [Ab] but if the past is any [Eb] indication,
many more will follow [Ab] the trail of the little [Eb] Cuban nation.
And soon in Havana, [Ab] I hope that we [Eb] may see,
a statue of the [Ab] man to go beside José [Eb] Martí,
[F] but wherefore goes [Eb] Havana, [Ab] or Angola, Mozambique,
[Eb] I'll always remember the [Bb] big [Gm] man's rosy [Fm] cheeks,
if the world could vote [Eb] for a leader, [Ab] how many just might choose,
[Eb] _ [Fm] Comandante Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ [Eb] _ Comandante [Fm] Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
When we look at history [Ab] and how it's all [Eb]
unwound,
there are few people on this planet that [Ab] have been more [Eb] tightly bound
with the liberation [Ab] of our troubled [Eb] human race
than the man from Santiago [Ab] with the beard [Eb] upon his face.
[F] Dressed in green [Eb] [Ab] fatigues that he wore most of his years
[Eb] as he led his country longer than any of his peers,
and [F] few men have been [Eb] vilified [Ab] more often in the [Eb] news
than Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
Born into a country of [Ab] dengue and [Eb] despair,
ruled by foreign armies ever [Ab] since [Eb] Columbus got there,
he'd reject his privilege and join humanity.
_ Forced to choose between [Ab] his species [Eb] and his family,
[Fm] and when legal means had [G] failed to [Ab] stop the suffering he saw,
[Eb] he decided it was high time [D] to work [Gm] outside the [Cm] law.
He organized a revolution [Ab] with the rifle and the fuse,
[Eb] _ [Bb] Comandante Fidel [Cm] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
When you win a revolution, [Ab] you might stop when you're [Eb] ahead,
but in the Havana Declaration, the [Ab] revolutionaries [Eb] said,
Wherever people, anywhere, [Ab] are bound to be [Eb] oppressed,
as long as we have [Ab] hearts that beat [Eb] within our chests,
[F] it is our duty to [Eb] support them.
[Ab] And Cuba sent their [Eb] troops, and Cuba sent their doctors,
[Dm] in ever [Eb] larger groups, and [Fm] their leader was the one
[Eb] in the [Ab] tracksuit and running shoes,
[Eb] _ [Fm] Comandante Fidel [Eb] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
It could have been someone else, [Ab] and he might be the first [Eb] to say,
the movement makes the leader, [Ab] not the [Eb] other way,
but around the world right now [Ab] sitting at their [Eb] dinner plates.
There are people praising [Ab] this man who stood up to [Eb] the United States,
[F] and lived life as a beacon [Eb] [Ab] for a new society,
[Eb] with housing, health care, [D] education, and the human [Eb] right to dignity,
[Fm] central to the [Eb] vision [Ab] for which he stood accused,
[Eb] _ Comandante [Fm] Fidel Alejandro [Eb] [Ab] Castro Ruz. _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I can't predict the future, [Ab] but if the past is any [Eb] indication,
many more will follow [Ab] the trail of the little [Eb] Cuban nation.
And soon in Havana, [Ab] I hope that we [Eb] may see,
a statue of the [Ab] man to go beside José [Eb] Martí,
[F] but wherefore goes [Eb] Havana, [Ab] or Angola, Mozambique,
[Eb] I'll always remember the [Bb] big [Gm] man's rosy [Fm] cheeks,
if the world could vote [Eb] for a leader, [Ab] how many just might choose,
[Eb] _ [Fm] Comandante Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ _ [Eb] _ Comandante [Fm] Fidel [G] Alejandro [Ab] Castro Ruz.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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