*** If you're into techniques à la Nile Rodgers, this exhaustive version is
nevertheless quite easy to play. ***

Madonna - La Isla Bonita

[Intro]

 

Como puede ser verdad


[Verse 1]

           
Last night I d

             
reamt of San P

 
edro
          
  Just like I'

             
d never gone, 

   
I knew the son

g
           
A young girl w

             
ith eyes like 

     
the desert
          
  It all seems

             
 like yesterda

       
y, not far awa

y


[Chorus]

           
Tropical the i

   
sland breeze
           
All of nature 

   
wild and free
             
This is where 

   
I long to be
       
La isla bonita
           
  And when the

  
 samba played
           
  The sun woul

    
d set so high
             
Ring through m

           
y ears and sti

ng my eyes
           
Your Spanish l

   
ullaby


[Verse 2]

          
I fell in love

          
 with San Pedr

o
          
  Warm wind ca

             
rried on the s

         
ea, he called 

to me
          
        Te dij

     
o te amo
          
  I prayed tha

             
t the days wou

              
ld last, they 

 
went so fast


[Chorus]

           
Tropical the i

   
sland breeze
           
All of nature 

   
wild and free
             
This is where 

   
I long to be
       
La isla bonita
           
  And when the

  
 samba played
           
  The sun woul

    
d set so high
             
Ring through m

           
y ears and sti

ng my eyes
           
Your Spanish l

   
ullaby


[Bridge]

          
I want to be w

             
here the sun w

         
arms the sky
           
When it's time

             
 for siesta yo

             
u can watch th

       
em go by
          
Beautiful face

             
s, no cares in

       
 this world
           
Where a girl l

             
oves a boy, an

            
d a boy ... lo

#     
ves a girl


[Solo]

          
(girl...)

  

         


[Verse 3]

           
Last night I d

             
reamt of San P


edro
          
  It all seems

             
 like yesterda

        
y, not far awa

y 


[Chorus]

           
Tropical the i

   
sland breeze
           
All of nature 

   
wild and free
             
This is where 

   
I long to be
       
La isla bonita
           
  And when the

  
 samba played
           
  The sun woul

    
d set so high
             
Ring through m

            
y ears and sti


ng my eyes
           
Your Spanish l

   
ullaby

[repeat 2x - fadeout]


*** The chords at "long to be", "la isla" and "spanish lullaby" in the
chorusses could also be an  or . It is a matter of taste. ***