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34-35. Los dos haninos
… disconnected content, yet all related to courtship: “Thank you for sending me the matchmaker, but there are problems … is required and my father does not agree. I am lovely and you are lovely, we shall marry and our children will be like the moon and the sun. I am lovely and so are you, let us get married.” … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life …
33–34. Las ventanas altas + Los regalos del novio
… to his future wife a dress to wear after her ritual bath. “You have high windows with yellow curtains; this night I ask God that you let me come up. The ring that you wear with its diamond is mine; the jeweler (in Turkish, …
De día en día (Me dice la gente)
… Four strophes with a refrain that says, “I with you, my bride (literally, my lady), we will talk together. I with you, bride, we will rejoice together.” The strophes share a similar structure. First strophe: “From day to day you cheat on me, people are telling me that you are mocking …
No paséis porla mi puerta (Prohibido el paso)
… A serial song based on a dialogue between a young man’s or young woman’s overprotective mother and his or her … I have a lovely (beautiful, etc.) son (or daughter). / If you have a lovely (beautiful, etc.) son (or daughter), give …
Dicotín dicotán (Ricotín ricotán)
… fingers behind his back and asks: “How many fingers do you have on you?” If the first child does not guess correctly, he gets …
22-23. El estudio de la Ley
… and cheese and carrying his book. Someone asks, “Where are you going?” The child responds, “To read God’s Law.” The …
Chico menico (Los dedos, nombres y oficios)
… An adult sings this rhyme to the young child, naming each finger (from the little finger to …
Durme, durme (Nanas de los buenos augurios)
… son as an educated Jew, she says, “Sleep, dear son, enjoy your sleep, close your beautiful eyes and sleep without worry or pain. You will go to school and learn the alphabet and receive …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 4: Cuando el rey Nimrod
… wife hid her pregnancy; every day she was asked, “Why are you so pale (or so changed)?” She already knew of her …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 2: La mujer de Terah
… until she came to look for him and found him already a young man. In a dialogue between young Abraham and his crying mother, he reveals that he is …