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El Cumbanchero
Words and Music by Rafael Hernandez - 1943
English words by Joe Grayhon and George Williams
Part 1:
Cm Ab Cm -
- Ab Cm -
-                  Bb Ab            Eb Fm             Cm Fdim         Adim  
G7 - Cm -    (G7 repeat Part 1)
Part 2:
C7 - - -
Fm - - -
D7 - - -
G7 - - -      (G7 to Part 1) 
8-beat intro. Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
 Play parts as follows:  1121. The song repeats one time.
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Part 1:
A cumba, cumba cumba, cumbanchero...
A bongo, bongo bongo, bongocero...
Priquiti que va sonando el combanchero bongo sero que se va...
Bongosero que se va.
 
Part 2:
Y suena asi el tambor
Priquiti bombom bam.
Y vuelve a repicar
Priquiti bombom bam.
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English Translation
 
Part 1:
A cumba, cumba-cumba, drum-player...
A bongo, bongo bongo, bongo-player...
Priquiti the sound that it's making when the drum-player that goes by...
Bongo-player that goes by.
 
Part 2:
And the drum sounds like this
Priquiti bombom bam.
And again he repeats
Priquiti bombom bam.
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Performer Links:
(webpage)
 
Watch the WineLand Banjo Band perform "El Cumbanchero" (youtube)
 
Watch Joe Litvinchuk and Jack Convery perform "El Cumbanchero" (youtube, timestamp 5:22)
 
Watch Chet Atkins perform "El Cumbanchero" (youtube)
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com