Nil Lara is amazing. Unfortunately, I haven’t heard much of him for years now and his site seems to not be all the current anymore. He was pretty popular back in the Miami scene during a few years in the 90s along with some other great bands like Forget The Name (FtN) and Natural Causes, great bars like Washington Square, Stephen Talkhouse, Churchill’s Hideaway, and Rose’s (though I think this one was a little later). Great vocalists like Rene Alvarez of FtN and later Sixo, Arlan Feiles (who I just noticed is still at it after doing a quick search–gotta check out his new stuff) of Natural Causes, and Nil. Great times, great music.

I was going through some old CDs the other day and ran across a couple of Nil Lara’s CDs: My First Child (really hard to find now) and the self-titled Nil Lara album (which is probably still easy to find nowadays). Da is another one I have somewhere though I was never able to get into that one as much as the others. Anyway, both of the first two I mentioned each had a different version of a song called My First Child. I’ve always preferred the version on the ‘My First Child’ album which reminds me of hanging out at Not Just Guitars in Miami sneaking peeks at Nil’s guitarist at that time who I’m pretty sure gave lessons at that store. Looking back, I wish I had taken guitar lessons back then and it would have been awesome to have gotten some from the man himself (though I’m drawing a blank on his name).

Anyway, I just spent a few minutes figuring out the chords to My First Child. You can get the full lyrics from the official site but here are some chords for those who want to play along…

My First Child by Nil Lara

Capo on the 1st fret.

Chords used:

   C  G  Am  Dsus2  D   F
e--0--3--0-----0----2---0-
B--1--1--1-----3----3---1-
G--0--0--2-----2----2---2-
D--2--0--2-----0----0---3-
A--3--2--0----------------
E-----3-------------------

         C
I have a son
           G
Growing inside
                 C
I've seen the response of God in me
          G
Coming to life
           Am       G
Kicking me strong
            Dsus2     D
Draining my blood

                C
You're my first child
              F
I'll show you no harm
     G            C       G
I'll teach you my love