Chords for Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos & Alhambra Guitars
Tempo:
53.95 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
Bb
Abm
F
Ebm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Bb] [Eb]
[Ebm] [D]
[Ab] Tenemos una calle de Los Angeles.
[Eb] [Bbm]
Woo!
[Gb] [G] [D]
I was born in [Ebm] Mexico, but I was raised in Los Angeles, California.
When I was a very small child, I was [Ab] introduced to music, musicians [Gb] that used to come over
and play for family [Ebm] functions.
I think [Bb] this is my earliest memories of being present in a room with musicians.
I don't know, there was something about the guitar [Db] that I took [Abm] to, that I loved the instrument.
And then when I came to the United States in the early 60s, [Bb] I got introduced to rock
and roll music.
And that's what did it, you know, rock and roll music.
You know, [F] everything that was good, man.
Everything from rock and roll to [Bb] rhythm and blues and surf music and all of that [Eb] stuff
that was going on, especially here in California [Bb] and Los Angeles.
[F] The Beach Boys and all that stuff, [Bb] you know.
Roy Orbison and this guy named Elvis Presley, you know, I used [Eb] to go watch his movies at the theaters.
And I was like, man, [Bb] who is this cat, man?
Who is this guy?
And he'd come out dancing and singing [F] and [Eb] gyrating, you know, and his hips and, you
know, these fantastic [F] musicians, this wild rock and roll music [Bb] and stuff.
And then later on, of course, the Beatles.
[N] The Beatles that came to America and the Rolling Stones.
[Bbm] So I was a kid in [Ab] the 60s, you know, growing up with all of that stuff.
[Bb] Everything that was happening, the Ed Sullivan Show and everything, you [Eb] know.
That's what really, that's what got me, you [Bb] know, is that, all of that.
Well, you know, when the early 70s rolled [C] around, I was already a musician and I was
playing in my R&B band and was doing a lot of funk music and, of course, some rock and
roll and stuff.
And [Db] right around that time was the time that we started, I started a band called Los [Eb] Lobos
and the reason for that was, [Bb] really, we dedicated all our talents, sort of, to the notion of
[Abm] playing folk music again.
That was Mexican folk music and we started [F] learning and experimenting with music [Abm] that
[Eb] comes from all the different regions in Mexico.
The old stuff, you know, the very old folk music that's maybe 100 years old or something
and, [B] you know, that's the music that comes from Veracruz and the Guajarocho music and
Wapangos [F] and Música Ranchera and all of that stuff.
Mainly music from Veracruz.
That was, that was [Abm] something that hit me, that hit me right in my heart, man.
It's [F] music that, that if you start learning that, if you start getting into that music,
I mean, that's pretty difficult music, [Eb] you know.
The way it's played and the technique of the strums [Abm] was rather challenging for us.
So there we were, young Chicano guys from East L.A. kind of rediscovering our roots
and playing [Dbm] Mexican folk music.
And that's kind of [Eb] where, that's kind of where it started for us.
[E] Well, I stopped at this guitar shop and was looking for a flamenco style guitar.
I picked up this one guitar and picked it up, strummed it, and it sounded great.
And I noticed, I looked in the sound hole and it said Alhambra.
And I went, wow, this is a great guitar.
So that's kind of where it started for me.
And then also, later on in one of my tours, I didn't pick up that guitar, by the way, that day.
Because I was in a hurry.
But not long thereafter, I was, we were on a tour in Spain and I was in Barcelona.
And I literally had like about half an hour before we had to go back to the hotel
and catch our flight back to the United States.
So I went into a guitar shop in Barcelona and I picked up this guitar, an Alhambra.
And I loved it ever since.
I brought it home and been playing it and that's really one of my primary guitars.
I don't use it too much on tour, but I use it more, it's more like my home studio guitar
that I use that to record like more serious [Dbm] tracks and stuff like that.
Well, the characteristics I like about Alhambra is obviously that it,
[Eb] they're made very well, they're fine made instruments and beautiful instruments.
And of course, they make all these different models, but I love their flamenco [Ebm] guitars.
And they're [Abm] very traditional and [Eb] they're [Abm] fine instruments and they sound beautiful, you know.
I picked this particular Alhambra, it's a 7 Series,
but I picked this one particularly, I was saying, for my tours.
And I love this particular model because it's a slim,
[Gb] it's kind of, it's slim from here and it's very comfortable to play.
And of course, this is designed more with the live performance in mind
and it's designed, it has a pickup, a nice pickup,
which you can plug into a big PA and it just sounds amazing.
And it also has this nice cutaway, so if you're [Ebm] playing, you know,
way up here, [C] you could [A] get up and do all the very [D] high notes,
you know, for those rock and roll crowds.
No, but it's a very, it's a very nice instrument
and it just seems to work very well for a touring musician [E] and for stage,
you know, [Gm] it just seems to work for me.
And it's, I like it too because it's still, it's still very acoustic
and it's designed in a [Db] very traditional form.
And what else can I say?
They're amazing instruments.
[Dbm] [Abm] [Eb]
[Ab] [Bb]
[Ebm] [D]
[Ab] Tenemos una calle de Los Angeles.
[Eb] [Bbm]
Woo!
[Gb] [G] [D]
I was born in [Ebm] Mexico, but I was raised in Los Angeles, California.
When I was a very small child, I was [Ab] introduced to music, musicians [Gb] that used to come over
and play for family [Ebm] functions.
I think [Bb] this is my earliest memories of being present in a room with musicians.
I don't know, there was something about the guitar [Db] that I took [Abm] to, that I loved the instrument.
And then when I came to the United States in the early 60s, [Bb] I got introduced to rock
and roll music.
And that's what did it, you know, rock and roll music.
You know, [F] everything that was good, man.
Everything from rock and roll to [Bb] rhythm and blues and surf music and all of that [Eb] stuff
that was going on, especially here in California [Bb] and Los Angeles.
[F] The Beach Boys and all that stuff, [Bb] you know.
Roy Orbison and this guy named Elvis Presley, you know, I used [Eb] to go watch his movies at the theaters.
And I was like, man, [Bb] who is this cat, man?
Who is this guy?
And he'd come out dancing and singing [F] and [Eb] gyrating, you know, and his hips and, you
know, these fantastic [F] musicians, this wild rock and roll music [Bb] and stuff.
And then later on, of course, the Beatles.
[N] The Beatles that came to America and the Rolling Stones.
[Bbm] So I was a kid in [Ab] the 60s, you know, growing up with all of that stuff.
[Bb] Everything that was happening, the Ed Sullivan Show and everything, you [Eb] know.
That's what really, that's what got me, you [Bb] know, is that, all of that.
Well, you know, when the early 70s rolled [C] around, I was already a musician and I was
playing in my R&B band and was doing a lot of funk music and, of course, some rock and
roll and stuff.
And [Db] right around that time was the time that we started, I started a band called Los [Eb] Lobos
and the reason for that was, [Bb] really, we dedicated all our talents, sort of, to the notion of
[Abm] playing folk music again.
That was Mexican folk music and we started [F] learning and experimenting with music [Abm] that
[Eb] comes from all the different regions in Mexico.
The old stuff, you know, the very old folk music that's maybe 100 years old or something
and, [B] you know, that's the music that comes from Veracruz and the Guajarocho music and
Wapangos [F] and Música Ranchera and all of that stuff.
Mainly music from Veracruz.
That was, that was [Abm] something that hit me, that hit me right in my heart, man.
It's [F] music that, that if you start learning that, if you start getting into that music,
I mean, that's pretty difficult music, [Eb] you know.
The way it's played and the technique of the strums [Abm] was rather challenging for us.
So there we were, young Chicano guys from East L.A. kind of rediscovering our roots
and playing [Dbm] Mexican folk music.
And that's kind of [Eb] where, that's kind of where it started for us.
[E] Well, I stopped at this guitar shop and was looking for a flamenco style guitar.
I picked up this one guitar and picked it up, strummed it, and it sounded great.
And I noticed, I looked in the sound hole and it said Alhambra.
And I went, wow, this is a great guitar.
So that's kind of where it started for me.
And then also, later on in one of my tours, I didn't pick up that guitar, by the way, that day.
Because I was in a hurry.
But not long thereafter, I was, we were on a tour in Spain and I was in Barcelona.
And I literally had like about half an hour before we had to go back to the hotel
and catch our flight back to the United States.
So I went into a guitar shop in Barcelona and I picked up this guitar, an Alhambra.
And I loved it ever since.
I brought it home and been playing it and that's really one of my primary guitars.
I don't use it too much on tour, but I use it more, it's more like my home studio guitar
that I use that to record like more serious [Dbm] tracks and stuff like that.
Well, the characteristics I like about Alhambra is obviously that it,
[Eb] they're made very well, they're fine made instruments and beautiful instruments.
And of course, they make all these different models, but I love their flamenco [Ebm] guitars.
And they're [Abm] very traditional and [Eb] they're [Abm] fine instruments and they sound beautiful, you know.
I picked this particular Alhambra, it's a 7 Series,
but I picked this one particularly, I was saying, for my tours.
And I love this particular model because it's a slim,
[Gb] it's kind of, it's slim from here and it's very comfortable to play.
And of course, this is designed more with the live performance in mind
and it's designed, it has a pickup, a nice pickup,
which you can plug into a big PA and it just sounds amazing.
And it also has this nice cutaway, so if you're [Ebm] playing, you know,
way up here, [C] you could [A] get up and do all the very [D] high notes,
you know, for those rock and roll crowds.
No, but it's a very, it's a very nice instrument
and it just seems to work very well for a touring musician [E] and for stage,
you know, [Gm] it just seems to work for me.
And it's, I like it too because it's still, it's still very acoustic
and it's designed in a [Db] very traditional form.
And what else can I say?
They're amazing instruments.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Ab] Tenemos una calle de Los Angeles.
[Eb] _ [Bbm] _ _ _
Woo!
_ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ I was born in [Ebm] Mexico, but I was raised in Los Angeles, California.
When I was a very small child, I was [Ab] introduced to music, musicians [Gb] that used to come over
and play for family [Ebm] functions.
I think [Bb] this is my earliest memories of being present in a room with musicians.
I don't know, there was something about the guitar [Db] that I took [Abm] to, that I loved the instrument.
And then when I came to the United States in the early 60s, [Bb] I got introduced to rock
and roll music.
And that's what did it, you know, rock and roll music.
You know, [F] everything that was good, man.
Everything from rock and roll to [Bb] rhythm and blues and surf music and all of that [Eb] stuff
that was going on, especially here in California [Bb] and Los Angeles.
[F] The Beach Boys and all that stuff, [Bb] you know.
Roy Orbison and this guy named Elvis Presley, you know, I used [Eb] to go watch his movies at the theaters.
And I was like, man, [Bb] who is this cat, man?
Who is this guy?
And he'd come out dancing and singing [F] and [Eb] gyrating, you know, and his hips and, you
know, these fantastic [F] musicians, this wild rock and roll music [Bb] and stuff.
And then later on, of course, the Beatles.
[N] The Beatles that came to America and the Rolling Stones.
[Bbm] So I was a kid in [Ab] the 60s, you know, growing up with all of that stuff.
[Bb] Everything that was happening, the Ed Sullivan Show and everything, you [Eb] know.
That's what really, that's what got me, you [Bb] know, is that, all of that.
Well, you know, when the early 70s rolled [C] around, I was already a musician and I was
playing in my R&B band and was doing a lot of funk music and, of course, some rock and
roll and stuff.
And [Db] right around that time was the time that we started, I started a band called Los [Eb] Lobos
and the reason for that was, [Bb] really, we dedicated all our talents, sort of, to the notion of
[Abm] playing folk music again.
That was Mexican folk music and we started [F] learning and experimenting with music [Abm] that
[Eb] comes from all the different regions in Mexico.
The old stuff, you know, the very old folk music that's maybe 100 years old or something
and, [B] you know, that's the music that comes from Veracruz and the Guajarocho music and
Wapangos [F] and Música Ranchera and all of that stuff.
Mainly music from Veracruz.
That was, that was [Abm] something that hit me, that hit me right in my heart, man.
It's [F] music that, that if you start learning that, if you start getting into that music,
I mean, that's pretty difficult music, [Eb] you know.
The way it's played and the technique of the strums [Abm] was rather challenging for us.
So there we were, young Chicano guys from East L.A. kind of rediscovering our roots
and playing [Dbm] Mexican folk music.
And that's kind of [Eb] where, that's kind of where it started for us. _
[E] _ _ Well, I stopped at this guitar shop and was looking for a flamenco style guitar.
I picked up this one guitar and picked it up, strummed it, and it sounded great.
And I noticed, I looked in the sound hole and it said Alhambra.
And I went, wow, this is a great guitar.
So that's kind of where it started for me.
And then also, later on in one of my tours, I didn't pick up that guitar, by the way, that day.
Because I was in a hurry.
But not long thereafter, I was, we were on a tour in Spain and I was in Barcelona.
And I literally had like about half an hour before we had to go back to the hotel
and catch our flight back to the United States.
So I went into a guitar shop in Barcelona and I picked up this guitar, an Alhambra.
And I loved it ever since.
I brought it home and been playing it and that's really one of my primary guitars.
I don't use it too much on tour, but I use it more, it's more like my home studio guitar
that I use that to record like more serious [Dbm] tracks and stuff like that.
Well, the characteristics I like about Alhambra is obviously that it,
[Eb] they're made very well, they're fine made instruments and beautiful instruments.
And of course, they make all these different models, but I love their flamenco [Ebm] guitars.
And they're [Abm] very traditional and [Eb] they're [Abm] fine instruments and they sound beautiful, you know.
I picked this particular Alhambra, it's a 7 Series,
but I picked this one particularly, I was saying, for my tours.
And I love this particular model because it's a slim,
[Gb] it's kind of, it's slim from here and it's very comfortable to play.
And of course, this is designed more with the live performance in mind
and it's designed, it has a pickup, a nice pickup,
which you can plug into a big PA and it just sounds amazing.
And it also has this nice cutaway, so if you're [Ebm] playing, you know,
way up here, [C] you could [A] get up and do all the very [D] high notes,
you know, for those rock and roll crowds.
No, but it's a very, it's a very nice instrument
and it just seems to work very well for a touring musician [E] and for stage,
you know, [Gm] it just seems to work for me.
And it's, I like it too because it's still, it's still very acoustic
and it's designed in a [Db] very traditional form.
And what else can I say?
They're amazing instruments.
_ [Dbm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Ab] Tenemos una calle de Los Angeles.
[Eb] _ [Bbm] _ _ _
Woo!
_ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ I was born in [Ebm] Mexico, but I was raised in Los Angeles, California.
When I was a very small child, I was [Ab] introduced to music, musicians [Gb] that used to come over
and play for family [Ebm] functions.
I think [Bb] this is my earliest memories of being present in a room with musicians.
I don't know, there was something about the guitar [Db] that I took [Abm] to, that I loved the instrument.
And then when I came to the United States in the early 60s, [Bb] I got introduced to rock
and roll music.
And that's what did it, you know, rock and roll music.
You know, [F] everything that was good, man.
Everything from rock and roll to [Bb] rhythm and blues and surf music and all of that [Eb] stuff
that was going on, especially here in California [Bb] and Los Angeles.
[F] The Beach Boys and all that stuff, [Bb] you know.
Roy Orbison and this guy named Elvis Presley, you know, I used [Eb] to go watch his movies at the theaters.
And I was like, man, [Bb] who is this cat, man?
Who is this guy?
And he'd come out dancing and singing [F] and [Eb] gyrating, you know, and his hips and, you
know, these fantastic [F] musicians, this wild rock and roll music [Bb] and stuff.
And then later on, of course, the Beatles.
[N] The Beatles that came to America and the Rolling Stones.
[Bbm] So I was a kid in [Ab] the 60s, you know, growing up with all of that stuff.
[Bb] Everything that was happening, the Ed Sullivan Show and everything, you [Eb] know.
That's what really, that's what got me, you [Bb] know, is that, all of that.
Well, you know, when the early 70s rolled [C] around, I was already a musician and I was
playing in my R&B band and was doing a lot of funk music and, of course, some rock and
roll and stuff.
And [Db] right around that time was the time that we started, I started a band called Los [Eb] Lobos
and the reason for that was, [Bb] really, we dedicated all our talents, sort of, to the notion of
[Abm] playing folk music again.
That was Mexican folk music and we started [F] learning and experimenting with music [Abm] that
[Eb] comes from all the different regions in Mexico.
The old stuff, you know, the very old folk music that's maybe 100 years old or something
and, [B] you know, that's the music that comes from Veracruz and the Guajarocho music and
Wapangos [F] and Música Ranchera and all of that stuff.
Mainly music from Veracruz.
That was, that was [Abm] something that hit me, that hit me right in my heart, man.
It's [F] music that, that if you start learning that, if you start getting into that music,
I mean, that's pretty difficult music, [Eb] you know.
The way it's played and the technique of the strums [Abm] was rather challenging for us.
So there we were, young Chicano guys from East L.A. kind of rediscovering our roots
and playing [Dbm] Mexican folk music.
And that's kind of [Eb] where, that's kind of where it started for us. _
[E] _ _ Well, I stopped at this guitar shop and was looking for a flamenco style guitar.
I picked up this one guitar and picked it up, strummed it, and it sounded great.
And I noticed, I looked in the sound hole and it said Alhambra.
And I went, wow, this is a great guitar.
So that's kind of where it started for me.
And then also, later on in one of my tours, I didn't pick up that guitar, by the way, that day.
Because I was in a hurry.
But not long thereafter, I was, we were on a tour in Spain and I was in Barcelona.
And I literally had like about half an hour before we had to go back to the hotel
and catch our flight back to the United States.
So I went into a guitar shop in Barcelona and I picked up this guitar, an Alhambra.
And I loved it ever since.
I brought it home and been playing it and that's really one of my primary guitars.
I don't use it too much on tour, but I use it more, it's more like my home studio guitar
that I use that to record like more serious [Dbm] tracks and stuff like that.
Well, the characteristics I like about Alhambra is obviously that it,
[Eb] they're made very well, they're fine made instruments and beautiful instruments.
And of course, they make all these different models, but I love their flamenco [Ebm] guitars.
And they're [Abm] very traditional and [Eb] they're [Abm] fine instruments and they sound beautiful, you know.
I picked this particular Alhambra, it's a 7 Series,
but I picked this one particularly, I was saying, for my tours.
And I love this particular model because it's a slim,
[Gb] it's kind of, it's slim from here and it's very comfortable to play.
And of course, this is designed more with the live performance in mind
and it's designed, it has a pickup, a nice pickup,
which you can plug into a big PA and it just sounds amazing.
And it also has this nice cutaway, so if you're [Ebm] playing, you know,
way up here, [C] you could [A] get up and do all the very [D] high notes,
you know, for those rock and roll crowds.
No, but it's a very, it's a very nice instrument
and it just seems to work very well for a touring musician [E] and for stage,
you know, [Gm] it just seems to work for me.
And it's, I like it too because it's still, it's still very acoustic
and it's designed in a [Db] very traditional form.
And what else can I say?
They're amazing instruments.
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