Misc Traditional — La Bamba

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: nickx@ix.netcom.com (Leon Masiewicki) Date: 18 Jul 1995 19:22:32 GMT LA BAMBA ~~~~~~~~ Transcribed by: Nick Masiewicki nickx@ix.netcom.com Traditional Mexican folk song, as played by I forget whom during the '50s or '60s. If anyone knows, please e-mail me. My English teacher taught me how to play this. Here’s my transcription. One guitar plays the tab, the other plays the chords: C F G C F G |---------------3-3-------------------------3-3---------------| Play |---3---------------2-----------3---------------2-------------| this |-----2---3-----------0-3-3-2-0---2---3-----------0-3-3-2-0---| thru- |-------0---2-----------------------0---2---------------------| out the |-------------1---------------------------1-------------------| song |-------------------------------------------------------------| ^(lyrics start here) Para bailar La Bamba Para bailar La Bamba se necessita una poca de gracia Una poca de gracia y otra cosita y arriba y arriba Ay arriba y arriba por ti sere por ti sere por ti sere Yo no soy marinero soy capitan soy capitan soy capitan Bamba la Bamba Bamba la Bamba Bamba la Bamba Bamba la Bamba Ba------------ Repeat the whole thing. I believe the traditional lyrics are already in OLGA. I hope this is correct. E-mail any corrections. If anyone knows what recording I’m talking about, tab out the solo if you can. I’ll be workin’ on it.

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>From: 93910487@vax1.dcu.ie
>Subject: CRD:LA BAMBA (Trad.)

Well, as I've seen quite a lot of people is looking for La Bamba. I'm sure
there are lots of ways of playing it, but in Spain we use C, F and G.
The lyrics can be endless, because this is a traditional song and everytime
people is inventing more words for it, but the most popular can be:

               C    F G
Para bailar la Bamba
               C        F    G                C    F G
Para bailar la Bamba se necesita una poca de gracia
             C        F     G                   C   F G
una poca de gracia y otra cosita ay arriba y arriba
               C       F     G                C   F G
ay arriba y arriba por ti sere yo no soy marinero
               C        F    G          C       F   G
yo no soy marinero soy capitan soy capitan soy capitan
C   F     G
Bamba la Bamba
C   F     G
Bamba la Bamba
C   F     G
Bamba la Bamba
C   F     G
Bamba la Bamba

Para subir al cielo
para subir al cielo se necesita una escalera larga
una escalera larga y otra cosita ay arriba y arriba
ay arriba y arriba contigo ire yo no soy marinero
yo no soy marinero soy capitan soy capitan soy capitan
Bamba la Bamba ...

Some funny words are:

Para ser secretaria
para ser secretaria se necesita una falda muy corta
una falda muy corta pero ademas una pierna muy larga
una pierna muy larga por ti sere yo no soy marinero...

para ser marinero
para ser marinero se necesita una buena chibichanga
una buena chibichanga y otra cosita tu no eres marinero
tu no eres marinero ni tu ni el, yo soy capitan soy capitan...

Well, hope this helps, at least is a funny song to sing along with friends.
Any correction, addition, suggestion, blow job etc to:

Julio Herrero Pino: 93910487@dcu.ie
ERASMUS student of International Mkting.
Dublin City University, EIRE.