Boney M. - El lute

^{G C} This is the story of El Lute ^G a man who was born to be hunted like a wild animal ^D because he was poor but he refused to accept his ^Gfate and today his honour has been restored.

He was ^Gonly nineteen and was sentenced to die for something that somebody else did and blamed on El L^Cute. ^Am Then they changed it to life and so he could escape from then on they ch^Dased him and searched for him day and night a^Gll over Spain but the s^Dearch was in vain ^D7 for El ^GLute.

He had ^G7only seen the d^Cark side of life the man they called El L^Gute and he wanted a ^Dhome just like you and like ^D7me in a country where ^Gall would be free. ^G7 So he taught himself to r^Cead and to write it didn't help El L^Gute he was one who had d^Dared to escape over^D7night they had to f^Cind El L^Gute.

Soon the f^Gmame of his name spread like wild fire all o^Dver the land ^Cmwith a price on his head people still gave him bread and they g^Dave him a hand ^Gm for they kn^Dew he was right and his fi^Gght was their fight.

No one g^Gave you a chance in the Spain of those days on the walls every place they had put up the face of El L^Cute. ^Am And he robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood they finally c^Daught him and that seemed the end. But they c^Gaught him in vain 'cause a c^Dhange came for Spain and El L^Gute.

He had ^G7only seen the d^Cark side of life the man they called El L^Gute and he wanted a ^Dhome just like you and like ^D7me in a country where ^Gall would be free. ^G7 And then freedom really c^Came to his land and also to El L^Gute Now he walks in the ^Dlight of a sunny new ^D7day The man they ^Ccalled El L^Gute

He had ^G7only seen the d^Cark side of life the man they called El L^Gute and he wanted a ^Dhome just like you and like ^D7me in a country where ^Gall would be free. ^G7