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Posted By: Monique
19-Aug-24 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
My mom used to sing it. Don't ask me whom she learned it from, when or where, she probably didn't know it herself...
BODA Y BAUTIZO (Spanish)

Caminito de Toledo
Encontré al mozo que me corteja,
Quiere casarse conmigo
Pero mi madre aún no me deja.
Pero yo mucho le quiero
Y ha prometido que va a comprarme
El vestido y la toquilla,
Que yo lo luzca para casarme.

(Estribillo)
Y con los mozos viene a rondar, así me suele cantar:
Mi novia es la más guapa que hay en todo Toledo,
Aunque se oponga el mundo
Ha de ser mía porque la quiero.

Las mocitas de Toledo
Van murmurando que no me caso,
Porque dicen que mi novio
Anda con otras, no me hace caso.
Pero yo de eso me río
Porque en secreto ayer me dijo
Que el día que nos casemos
Celebraremos boda y bautizo.

(Estribillo)

Desde el día de la boda
Van murmurando por todo el pueblo
Que el niñito que ha nacido
No es de mi novio porque no hay tiempo
De estas cosas no hago caso
Porque mi novio ya estaba al tanto
Y a las chicas que preguntan
Él les contesta "Vino por radio".

(Estribillo)
WEDDING AND BAPTISM

On the road to Toledo
I met the young man who courts me,
He wants to marry me
But my mother won't let me yet.
But I love him very much
And he has promised that he will buy me
The dress and the veil
For me to flaunt them when I get married.

(Chorus)
And with the young men he comes to woo, he usually sings to me this way:
My fiancée is the prettiest in all of Toledo,
Even if the world opposes it
She must be mine because I love her.

The young women of Toledo
Go around murmuring that I don't get married
Because they say that my fiancé
Goes with others, he doesn't pay attention to me.
But I laugh about it
Because in secret yesterday he told me
That on the day we get married
We will celebrate a wedding and a baptism.

(Chorus)

Since the day of the wedding
They've been whispering all over town
That the baby boy who was born
Isn't my boyfriend's because there's not enough time
I don't pay attention to these things
Because my boyfriend already knew
And to the girls who ask
He answers "He came by radio."

(Chorus)
Recording by Elvira de Amaya (1904-1973)
Another recording

This song is also known as Caminito de Laredo (no 3rd verse)
Other rendition (ditto)

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