Qeej is an Hmong instrument that stills goes on till this day it has been going on for over 5,025 years now. It’s an instrument that sends a dead person to the afterlife and ever since I was a kid I always wanted to play it. But what got me inspired to play the qeej is my grandpa and my older uncle they both have seen my potential in playing. It is really fun to play and when I was five years old I would always get dropped off at my grandparents house and my grandpa loved to play the qeej for me as a kid. Everytime i go see them or get drop off at my younger uncle’s house. But 6 years later I started to learn how to play the qeej and my grandpa sent a qeej maker money to make me one. It took about 2-3 months to arrive. When it arrived it was broken and my grandpa got really mad because he spent over 500$ to get it for me and I stopped learning to play qeej for 2 years. Till now my uncle has given me one of his. That cost 500$ but he gave it to me for free and now I'm back to learning to play the qeej but there is still a lot for me to learn more Lyrics of the Qeej.

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