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  - El Cumbanchero
  - Words and Music
  by Rafael Hernandez - 1943
  - English words
  by Joe Grayhon and George Williams
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      | 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.
  - _______
  -  
  - 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.
  - _______
  -  
  - 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.
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  - 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)
  - _______
  
 Arranged by Jim Bottorff
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  - This Chord Chart
  may not appear correctly with some browsers.  It should
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  - The chord names should
  appear in single rows.   Let me know of any problems.
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  - email: jbott@ix.netcom.com