Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Key: Eb MajorEb
Difficulty: Advanced
Intro:
Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F Eb/GEb/G Absus2Absus2 (x2)
Verse 1:
Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F
In this album there’s a picture
Eb5/G Absus2Absus2
Of the ladies at Daniela’s
Ab5/Bb Absus2Absus2
You can tell it’s from the eighties
Cm7/G Bb/FBb/F
By the volume of their hair
Ab/Eb Fm(add9)
There’s Usnavi, just a baby
Cm5 Bb5Bb5
‘Eighty-seven, Halloween
Absus2Absus2 Db(add2) Ebsus
If it happened on this block, Abuela was there
Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb
Every afternoon I came
Ebsus2(add4) Eb MajorEb Bbsus Bb majorBb
She’d make sure I did my homework
Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb
She could barely write her name
Ebsus2(add4) Eb MajorEb Bbsus Bb majorBb
But even so…
Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb Dbsus2(add#4)
She would stare at the paper
DbDb
And tell me
C minorCm Bbsus Bb majorBb
“Bueno, let’s review
Absus2Absus2 Abm(add2)
Why don’t you tell me
Eb MajorEb Bbm9Bbm9
Everything you know.”
Eb/Ab AbAb Eb/Ab Abm7Abm7 Bb6/9
Verse 2:
Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F
In this album there’s a picture
Eb/GEb/G Absus2Absus2
Of Abuela in Havana
Eb/BbEb/Bb Absus2Absus2
She is holding a rag doll
Cm7/G Bb/FBb/F Bb majorBb
Unsmiling, black and white
Ab/Eb Fm9Fm9
I wonder what she’s thinking
C minorCm Bbsus Bb majorBb
Does she know that she’ll be leaving
Absus2Absus2 Db(add9) Ebsus2(add4) Eb MajorEb
For the city on a cold, dark night?
Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb
And on the day they ran
Ebsus2(add4) Eb MajorEb Eb/BbEb/Bb Bb majorBb
Did she dream of endless summer?
Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb
Did her mother have a plan?
Ebsus2(add4) Eb MajorEb Eb/BbEb/Bb Bb majorBb
Or did they just go?
Eb/Db DbDb Dbsus2(add#4) DbDb
Did somebody sit her down and say
C minorCm Bbsus Bb majorBb Ab6/9
“Claudia, get ready, to leave
Abm/Cb DbDb Eb MajorEb Bbm9Bbm9 Eb/Ab AbAb Eb/Ab
Behind everything you know”?
AbmAbm Db6/9 Eb MajorEb Bbm9Bbm9
Everything I know
Eb/Ab Ab/G Eb MajorEb Abm7Abm7 Db6/9
What do I know?
Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F Eb/GEb/G Absus2Absus2
Verse 3:
Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F
In this folder there’s a picture
Eb/GEb/G Absus2Absus2
From my high school graduation
Eb5/Bb Absus2Absus2
With the program, mint condition
C minorCm Bbsus Bb majorBb
And a star beside my name
Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F
Here’s a picture of my parents
Eb5/G Absus2Absus2
As I left for California
Absus Bbsus Cm7Cm7 (add4)
She saved everything we gave her
Eb(add2)/G Bbsus
Every little scrap of paper
Dbsus2Dbsus2 (add#4) DbDb Dbsus2Dbsus2 (add#4)
And our lives are in these boxes
DbDb Ebsus2(add4) Eb MajorEb Bbsus Bb majorBb
While the woman who held us is gone
DbDb Eb/Db DbDb Eb/Db DbDb Ab/Eb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb/BbEb/Bb Bb7/D
But we go on, we grow, so…
Fm7Fm7 Cm7Cm7 Eb7/Bb Bb majorBb
Hold tight, Abuela, if you’re up there
Absus2Absus2 Abm/Cb Abm/Eb Eb MajorEb Bbm9Bbm9 Eb/Ab AbAb Eb7/Ab AbAb
I’ll make you proud of everything I know!
Db(add2#4) (n.c) Eb5Eb5 Eb5/F Eb5/G Absus2Absus2
Thank you, for everything I know
Eb(add2)