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this girl is singing el emigrante (the migrant*), one of my favourite coplas ever, by famous cantaor juanito valderrama ❤️‍🩹

juanito composed this song in 1948 to honour the thousands of spaniards that had been forced to flee and live in exile during and after the civil war. here are the translated lyrics that the girl is singing, i do recommend checking the full original song, it should be easy to find:

i have to make a rosary

with your ivory teeth

so i can kiss them

when i am far from you

over her divine bead**

made out of nardo*** and jasmine

i will pray for the protection

of her who is in san gil****

and goodbye my beloved spain

i bring you inside in my soul

even if i am a migrant

never in my life

will i ever forget you

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*i know it's not the same word but it's similar enough, also i don't know if 'emigrant' is a word in english

** i don't know if i understood this verse correctly, but if i did it's referring to the beads of the rosary

*** nardos are a species of flowers :)

****for what i've gathered doing some research, the church of san gil is a famous one in sevilla, and he's referring here to the virgin mary, either our lady of la macarena or our lady of el carmen, one of them.

#folkloreandtiktok #spanish culture #spain #copla #folklore #i didn't want to clutter the post too much but just in case #a copla is one of the traditional forms of song in spain. it is flamenco-adjacent in the way that many flamenco artists sung coplas #but it's not a flamenco palo. it is its own thing #and a cantaor / cantaora is simply a person who sings (normally) flamenco. as easy as that #this is one of the songs ever honestly. and it's still evergreen today with so many people having to leave the country to find jobs #(half of my friend group for example lol)#also every spanish person knows someone that has exiled family members or were exiled themselves #i have talked about this before here but in my case. on my mother's side i had family exiled in france and mexico. the ones from france #returned but the mexicans still live there #and in my dad's side there were also exiled to france and they still live there

hey besties, i just created the tag #folkloreandtiktok (hehe get it?) for all the vids i find on tiktok showcasing traditional songs and / or dances from spain so you can look and listen to them all in one place :) i've also added the tag to my 'most searched tags' list so it shows up when you want to search anything on my blog.

here are the videos that are already in the tag if you want to revisit them or if you haven't seen them yet: galician muñeira, navarran jota, and madrileñan chotis.

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