One of my favorite traditional Mexican songs is la Llorona, a version of the piece can be found on the Frida soundtrack. When I was living in Veracruz we used to sing it in school but we never took on more than 4 or 5 verses, come to find out there are over 33 of them. One that we never sang follows:
De tarde se me hace triste, Llorona,
de noche con más dolor;
suspirando me amanece, Llorona,
llorando me sale el sol.
Afternoon is saddened, Llorona
The night holds more pain
The dawn finds me sighing, Llorona
And only tears for the sun's rays
I cheated a little bit there for the sake for the rhyme. It's a great song, I'm going to try to find it outside of the Frida soundtrack. Something more traditional.
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