PROCOL HARUM - "Conquistador" Tablature

"Conquistador"
(Gary Brooker - Keith Reid)

[Note: this is the arrangement from the first album, not the remake with
the Edmonton Symphony.]

Verse 1:

distorted guitar, doubled with bass:

Gm C7 F F7/Eb
v v v v v v v v v v v v v v
---------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
---------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
----(0-2-|-3)*-------------|-----------------|-----------------
-----3-4-|-5---------------|-------------2-3-|-------------2-1-
---5-----|-------------5-4-|-3---------------|-----------------
---------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
* guitar plays higher line on 2nd repeat of each verse

Conquistador your stallion stands in need of company

Gm C7
And like some angel's haloed brow
F F7/Eb
You reek of purity
G Cm
I see your armor plated breast
F Gm
Has long since lost its sheen
G Cm
And in your death mask face
F Gm
There are no signs which can be seen

Chorus:

Gm Eb7
And though I hoped for something to find
Gm Eb7 Gm
I could see no place to unwind

Verse 2:

Conquistador a vulture sits, upon your silver sheath
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

Conquistador there is no time, I must pay my respect
And though I came to jeer at you
I leave now with regret
And as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no, only all
Though you came with sword held high
You did not conquer, only die

[repeat chorus, 2X]

organ solo:

Gm Eb7 [4X]
/ / / / / / / /

[repeat chorus; end cold on Gm]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers