Leonardo " Flaco" Jiménez began performing, at the age of seven, with his father, Santiago Jimenez, who was a pioneer of conjunto music and began recording at age fifteen as a member of Los Caporales. He played in the San Antonio area for several years, and then began working with Douglas Sahm in the 1960s. Sahm, better known as the founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, played with Jiménez for some time. Flaco then went on to New York City and worked with Dr. John, David Lindley, Peter Rowan, Ry Cooder and Bob Dylan. He appeared on Cooder's world music album Chicken Skin Music and on the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge. This led to greater awareness of his music outside America and, after touring Europe with Ry Cooder, he returned to tour in America with his own band, and on a joint bill with Peter Rowan. Jiménez, Peter Rowan and Wally Drogos were the original members of a band called The Free Mexican Airforce.
Jiménez won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, one of his father's songs. He was also a member of the Tejano fusion group Texas Tornados, with Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender. The Texas Tornados won a Grammy Award in 1990, and Jiménez earned one on his own in 1996, when his self-titled album Flaco Jiménez won the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance. In 1999, Flaco earned another Grammy Award for Best Tejano Performance for Said and Done (released by Barbed Wire Records), and one for Best Mexican-American Performance as a part of supergroup Los Super Seven. Jiménez has also won a Best Video award at the Tejano Music Awards and earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from Billboard Latin Magazine for "Streets of Bakersfield" with Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens.
Jiménez appeared in the movie Picking Up the Pieces, with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and also featured on the soundtrack. His music has featured in the soundtrack for other movies such as Y Tu Mamá También, The Border, Tin Cup, and Striptease. The Hohner company collaborated with Jiménez to create the Flaco Jimenez Signature Series of accordions.
His brother, Santiago Jiménez, Jr., is also an accomplished accordionist who has recorded extensively.
Jiménez's latest CD, Ya Volvi De La Guerra, was issued in 2009 by Fiesta Records.
La Tumba Sera el FInal
FLACO JIMENEZ Lyrics
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Nuestro amor es tan grande
Como no habra jamás
Juntos caminaremos hasta la muerte,
Y aunque el mundo se oponga
Nos tendremos que amar
Ahi sera la separación
Y hasta en la tumba te sigo amando
Si quiere Dios
Mienten si te aseguran que no te quiero,
Solamente a mi madre
La queria mas que a tí
Ella que nos bendice de aya del cielo,
Me lo dijo en un sueño
Que seras para mi
La tumba sera el final,
Ahi sera la separación
Y hasta en la tumba te sigo amando
Si quiere Dios
The lyrics to Flaco Jimenez's song "La Tumba Sera el Final" portray a love that is so powerful that not even death can separate the two. The first verse speaks of how the world may try to tear them apart, but their love is unbreakable. The second verse talks about how they will walk together until death, despite any opposition they may face.
The chorus of the song is particularly poignant, as it talks about how even in death, their love will endure. The tomb is presented as the final separation, but even there, the singer will continue to love their beloved "if God so wishes." The final verse seems to be addressing some doubt or mistrust that the beloved may have had, assuring them that they are loved even more than the singer's own mother.
Overall, "La Tumba Sera el Final" is a powerful statement of enduring love, one that not even death can extinguish.
Line by Line Meaning
Luchan por separnos pero es inútil,
Despite others trying to tear us apart, their efforts are in vain.
Nuestro amor es tan grande
Our love is so strong.
Como no habra jamás
As it has never been before.
Juntos caminaremos hasta la muerte,
We will walk together until death.
Y aunque el mundo se oponga
Even if the world tries to stop us.
Nos tendremos que amar
We must continue to love each other.
La tumba sera el final,
The end will come with the grave,
Ahi sera la separación
Where we will be separated.
Y hasta en la tumba te sigo amando
And even in the grave, I will love you.
Si quiere Dios
If God wills it.
Mienten si te aseguran que no te quiero,
They lie if they say I don't love you.
Solamente a mi madre
Only to my mother.
La queria mas que a tí
I loved her more than you.
Ella que nos bendice de aya del cielo,
She who blesses us from the heavens above.
Me lo dijo en un sueño
She told me in a dream.
Que seras para mi
That you will be mine.
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