Genie: "Kalinka" is somewhat about a tree. Beneath a green pine (pod sosnoju, pod zelenoju) is where she laid him down to sleep, and he implores the pine not to make noise over him. But the song is really about his sweetheart, Kalinka, like a little "berry" in a garden.

"Los Arbolitos" reminded me of "Dos Arbolitos", by Chucho Martinez Gil (1930's).