Chords for Los Lobos | Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2018

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[G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ You know, when people think of American bands, you have [G] to place Los [D] Lobos as one of the
top five bands [G] in America.
[A] _ _ [D] _ They have [G] this corazon.
[A] [D] They play with art.
_ [G] _ [A] They're Los [D] Lobos.
They're badass.
It's just us.
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_ [D] _ Los Lobos has been called the quintessential American [G] rock and roll band because they represent
so many different elements of what America is and what rock and roll [Ab] music is.
They [A] _ [Eb] took all the elements [B] of the music that they had soaked [G] up as kids [A] and made something
new out of it.
[G] _ And we went on tour with them, _ [Fm] so we played some pretty big shows [Gm] with them and became
very close friends and got to know them very well.
_ Not [C] only began this great [Gm] friendship, but so much admiration for their talent, their
music, and what it meant to us as _ Chicanos.
_ To see that their work has transcended genres, transcended time, it gives you so much [C] inspiration
to know that [Gm] there's so much out there for you in the world that you can experience through
[D] music, [G] through culture, and also never lose the essence of who you [F] are.
Without a band like Los Lobos having done what they did, [G] there wouldn't be bands like [C] us. _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ Being these Chicanos, [Gm] Mexico [F] Americanos, playing El [E] Canelo, [Am] playing Sabor a Mi, and [D] playing
traditional music [Dm] so well [Am] just makes me feel _ [C] proud.
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Maestro, _ Flaco Jimenez. _ _
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[Gb] Whatever you want with Los Lobos, you're going to get [G] it.
_ [D] What I think about Los Lobos, [G] they are very versatile.
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You know, the crossover that they do, man.
[G] And you know, singing in English and Spanish, rock and roll, the versatility of what they
do is amazing.
_ _ The first time I played with Los Lobos was [N] Austin City Limits.
I mean, it was fun doing it, [C] man.
I mean, so open.
[G] With Los Lobos, you can breathe [D] easily _ and _ _ [F] no [G] pressure at all.
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_ [G] Of course, David Hidalgo, _ [D]
he's my hero, [G] man.
He's a _ [Am] guitar player.
_ [G] All the guys, man, the whole band, Los Lobos, [D] they're our heroes.
_ _ [G] _ _ They're a band that, they're not imitators, they're creators.
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[E] _ _ _ Those were natural, we didn't have any hair dye back then.
[F] That was all natural.
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[Eb] We were on it right there.
We'd been playing it, [B] so we were, _ you know, we weren't rusty, we were happy, we were _ _ on
our game at [Em] that time.
We just [B] got into the music and we thought, well, this is our [E] stuff.
So we had dreams [B] of taking it out and _ sharing it with the world.
And you know, gratefully, we were [Dbm] able to do [A] some of that.
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[E] _ _ We're like the accidental rock stars.
We never planned to _ do [Eb] what we've [E] done and what we [A] did.
_ _ [Eb] Certainly when we started playing Mexican [A] music, it was kind of unusual for young people
to be [B] playing that sort of music, because [E] _ that was music that [B]
our parents listened to.
[E] How could [A] a band that [B] _ plays traditional [E] music _ [Eb] end up with a number one hit or something?
Which only, [E] _ we were totally proven wrong, because in 1987, we had a [B] worldwide hit of
La Bamba, which was a traditional Mexican song.
And we never really took that lightly.
_ [E] At that point, we realized that we had a certain degree of responsibility.
And we couldn't just bask in the [B] glow of this rock star [Em]-ness or anything like that.
We thought [B] that we need to do something with this.
[Em] We did things that [B] really _ moved the focus to [E] not just these four [A] guys who are Mexican [B]-American,
but to the entire culture.
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[C] Well, I [Gm] want to congratulate Los Lobos.
I really am proud of the guys.
And so, [G] guys, keep on going.
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_ _ _ _ _ It's well-deserved, and it makes us proud.
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[C] _ [F] They paved the way for [D] bands like us to be able to celebrate where we [G] come from,
to _ experiment, _ to learn how to [C] play traditional music, but to also say,
hey, we're American, and we like to rock and roll, we like to rock out.
They're [Bb] the masters, you know?
[Dbm] _ The dads of [Ab] the chicks.
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