Chords for My Father's Accordion - Flaco Jimenez & Los Cenzontles

_ _ He got you, huh?
He got us, man.
Yeah.
I think he went to a concert or a solomita place.
I don't know where.
Have a good night, Flaco.
Have a good night.
_ _ Well, _ _ _ _ when I first touched an aguardian, I was about seven years old.
_ Or might be six, because by the time I was seven, I already know more or less how to
play, because I was watching my dad, Santiago Jimenez Sr.,
play at home, you know.
He used to play on dances, house dances or whatever.
But then when I was at that age, six, around six, my dad used to go to_
My dad had two jobs.
A day job, _ regular day job, and he played Friday, Saturday, and Sundays. _
So whenever my dad went to work, I picked up his aguardian, and he didn't know about
it, because I _ was not scared that I would_
Maybe I don't spank him, no.
But just out of respect of his aguardian, you know.
But anyway, I knew he was not there, so I picked up the aguardian. _
_ And one _ day, my dad came back from work early, and it was day's work, and I was playing the
aguardian, you know.
And he didn't know I _ was playing the aguardian, yeah.
_ So _ he _ _ opened the_
I can recall, I had the aguardian, and you're sitting down in bed, you know, playing aguardian. _
So he _ [Fm] opened the door.
He told me this.
He opened the door, but just semi, not open all the way.
So like this, he was hiding, but listening on what I was playing.
_ _ And then he opened the door wide open, you know, the house door open, and he went straight
to me and _ started_
Before he got to me, he was crying.
_ [N] And he went straight to me, gave me a hug, and he was crying like_
Because he didn't know I could play his polkas or whatever he played.
_ So, and then he told me, mijo, you can play my aguardian whenever you _ want. _
It's just play. _
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