Hi folks! Here I am with another cover:
This is an old Loquillo & Trogloditas tune. There are only 4 chords throughout the whole song (D, A, Bm and G) but with a different emphasis depending on the part.
In the verses the chords are arpeggiated, for which I used their triads in different positions of the fretboard.
There’s a pre-chorus part with Bm and G and the choruses follow the same chord proggression as the verses but this time strumming.
And finally, I composed a little solo which starts at 2:45 roughly and goes till the end of the song. For this solo I used the E pentatonic scale, trying to emphasise the notes that belong to each chord. For this I used 1st, 2nd and 3rd position and the first and 2nd position in the high part of the fretboard as well.
LYRICS:
I always wanted to go to L.A.
Leave this city one day
Cross the sea with you.
But it’s been a long time since you left me
And you’ll probably have forgotten about me
I don’t know the adventures I will live without you.
And here I am
Sitting in an old 2nd hand Cadillac
By the Merbeyé (a club in Barcelona)
The city, at my feet
And a while ago
The last blonde girl that came to try the backseat has left me
Here at the Tibidabo’s hillside (famous Barcelona’s mount)
Perhaps the Martini made me remember
Baby, why didn’t you call again?
I thought I could forget you just like that
And still sometimes…you know…
And when the blonde girl left
I felt strange, I was on my own smoking a cigarrette
Maybe I thought: “nostalgia for you”
And from this curve where I’m still
I found myself staring at your barrio
City lights have trapped me
The sunrise will catch me
Sleeping drunk in the Cadillac
Underneath the palm trees, lonely crossroad
And people says that you’ve settled down
And here I am, drunk in the Cadillac
Underneath the palm trees, lonely crossroad
And you are not here.
Phew! Trying to transcribe the lyrics took me as much as recording the song, mate
Hope you like it, cheers!