Lagu tersebut muncul di dalam album studio kelima mereka yang diberi judul The Royal Scam.
Album yang dirilis pada tahun 1976 melalui label ABC Records tersebut berhasil menduduki peringkat ke-15 di US Billboard 200.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Caves of Altamira” dari Steely Dan.
[intro]
|F#m7 E/F# |F#m7 E/F# |F#m7 E/F# |F#m7 C#m7|
[verse #1]
F#m7 A9
I recall when I was small
Dmaj7 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7
How I spent my days a lone
A9
The busy world was not for me
Dmaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7
So I went and found my own
C#m11
I would climb the garden wall
F#/B E/A C#/F#
With a candle in my hand
B/E F#/A# Dmaj7 C#m9
I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand
[verse #2]
F#m7 A9
On the stone an ancient hand
Dmaj7 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7
In a faded yellow-green
A9
Made alive a worldly wonder
Dmaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7
Often told but never seen
C#m11
Now and ever bound to labor
F#/B E/A C#/F#
On the sea and in the sky
B/E F#/A#
Every man and beast appeared
Bmaj7 Amaj7 A7/C#
A friend as real as I
[chorus]
Dmaj9 Amaj7
Be fore the fall when they wrote it on the wall
Dmaj9 F#m7
When there wasn’t even Holly wood
E6 Dmaj9 C#m7
They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
Bm7
For you and me
Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7 Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 G C#m7|F#m7 E/F#|F#m7 C#m7|
we under stood
[verse #3]
F#m7 A9
Can it be this sad design
Dmaj7 E7 Dmaj7 F#m7
Could be the very same
A9
A wooly man with out a face
Dmaj7 E6 Eb7 Dmaj7
And a beast without a name
C#m11
Nothin' here but history
F#/B E/A C#/F#
Can you see what has been done
B/E F#/A#
Memory rush over me
Bmaj7 Amaj7 A7/C#
Now I step into the sun
[Ulangi chorus]
Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7 Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 G C#m7 F#m7
we under stood
sax:
|Bm7 |F#m9 C#m7|Bm7 E/F#|F#m7 E6 Eb7 |
|Dmaj7 C#m11 |F#/B E/A C#/F# |B/E F#/A# |G#m7 Amaj7 A/C# |
[Ulangi chorus]
Gmaj7 Fmaj7 Emaj7 Dmaj7 C#m7 Cmaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 G C#m7 |F#m7 E/F#|
we under stood
[coda]
|F#m7 A9 |Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 |F#m7 A9 |Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 |
|F#m7 A9 |Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 |F#m7 A9 |Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 |
|F#m7 A9 |Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 |F#m7 A9 |Dmaj9 E7 Dmaj7 |
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