The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31246   Message #406254
Posted By: cowboypoet
25-Feb-01 - 11:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: La Paloma (Sebastian Yradier)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: La Paloma
Lin in Kansas, "y" in Spanish is "and". Quite often if the next word begins with a vowel the two are phonetically combined, for example "y una" (and a) becomes "yuna" to the ear. The fact that it appears thus in your source may mean that a space was inadvertently left out -- a typo -- or the transcriber was a non-Spanish-speaking person.