Whistling the Esperanza - Ewan McLennan
On a still night under darkness Men fastened their boots Their head torches flickered Their tobacco smoke rose With the cogs and wheels whirring They were lowered below As they whistled the Esperanza In the hot dusty air Their picks and drills flew With the passing of hours The specks of gold grew Till a deafening roar shook The hill with a blow And snuffed out their Esperanza As the dust fell and settled The silence gave way To the miners who lay There untouched and unscathed But where the rubble had Fallen it blocked their retreat Their hopes were now with san Lorenzo Up above shrill alarm bells Greeted the dawn From their posts men Scattered their radios drawn From the mine the news travelled to The families at home To the nation and echoed beyond But before long the rescue was planned And in place There were drillers from texas Brought to join the race But with six hundred metres of solid Rock in their way Their faces were grim but determined From the length of the country And the hills they soon came On the sands families gathered to wait And prey for their men They pitched up their tents There in the hot stinging sun And they named it camp Esperanza For the nine weeks that they waited nerves Tempers were frayed But a school for the children And shrines for the miners were made There were feuds There was marriage and a baby was born All under camp Esperanza The men crouched below in The heat and the dark Surviving on rations lowered down Mine shaft They appointed a doctor And a cook from their ranks And swore that they'dstruggle through together After six days of drilling They finally struck through To the cavern where the miners joy Greeted the view The tunnel was carved And the line boss cast down To where the dust down The tears now ran together The weak were the first On the journey above Entombed and twisting from The pull and the shove They rose from the earth on A woven line of steel To the strains of the band'sEsperanza One by one each miner emerged into the sun To the thirty three families Stood to welcome their men Amidst the sand and the rubble The crowds gathered and cheered And sang for their newly knighted heroes A mother held her son in a careful embrace A young girl looked on The warm sun framing her face As he lifted time up she whispered Daddy promise me Your days underground are done On the san Jose mine the sun shone The wind blew In the way that it had since 1892Still in danger men toil Traded for gold Still the harsh winds There scatter the topsoil On a still night under darkness men Fastened their boots Their head torches flickered Their tobacco smoke rose With the cogs and wheels whirring They were lowered below As they whistled the Esperanza As they whistled the Esperanza Guitar score
Whistling the Esperanza Artist: Ewan McLennan
Capo: 0
Key: B
Difficulty：
Tempo: 61
Time Signature: 4/4
Hot: 101
Creation time: 2023-05-01 Whistling the Esperanza Guitar Tab, arranged and transcribed by Chordance, complete with staff notation and numbered musical notation. The song was composed by and performed by Ewan McLennan. This guitar tab is in the key of B and is a Beginner version, suitable for players at the Beginner level. A must-learn piece for guitar enthusiasts. Strum the guitar, open the piano, and experience the mood conveyed by Ewan McLennan at that time～
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