Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido

Subject: Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 03:53 PM

Patty Clink sang this one at the singaround. I think it's worth exploring.

Mexico Lindo y Querido

Voz de la guitarra mía al despertar la mañana
Quiere cantar su alegría a mi tierra mexicana
Yo le canto a tus volcanes, a tus praderas y flores
Que son como talismanes del amor de mis amores

México lindo y querido, si muero lejos de ti
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí
México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti

Que me entierren en la sierra
Al pie de los magueyales
Y que me cubra ésta tierra
Que es cuna de hombres cabales
Voz de la guitarra mía, al despertar la mañana
Quiere cantar su alegría a mi tierra mexicana

México lindo y querido, si muero lejos de ti
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí
México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos, de ti


Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Jesús Ramírez Monge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDdtEVAo-U

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido
From: Monique
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 05:19 PM

Wiki English says...
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"México lindo y querido" is a traditional mariachi and ranchera Mexican song written by Chucho Monge and made famous by singer Jorge Negrete ("the singing charro"). It is widely known throughout the Spanish-speaking world for its characterization of patriotism and loyalty for the land of Mexico. It has been covered by many well-known artists, including Bertín Osborne, Ana Gabriel and Vicente Fernández and Pedro Fernández.
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Wiki Spanish adds (Translated by Google, I'm too sleepy to do it)...
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... although the first who recorded it were the Tariacuri trio in 1945, it is widely known among the world. Spanish-speaking as a representative song of Mexico and, in that country, as a song of patriotic pride and nostalgia for the native land.

When Jorge Negrete passed away on December 5, 1953, in Los Angeles, California, United States, his body was brought to Mexico and this song was played and sung at his funeral.
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An English translation can be found on Lyricstranslate.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido
From: pattyClink
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 09:45 PM

This is the video "Playing for Change" did with various performers chiming in. For some reason the first 40 seconds are a lead-in featuring that ay-ay-ay song Cielito Lindo, but be patient.

Mexico Lindo y Querido

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido
From: Monique
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 01:23 PM

In case the LyricsTranslate page would disappear, here's what the lyrics mean (widely borrowed from the LT translation):

The voice of my guitar
Wants to sing its joy
To my Mexican homeland
When the morning wakes up

I sing to its volcanoes,
Its meadows and its flowers
Which are like talismans
Of the love amongst my loves

Beautiful and beloved Mexico
Should I die far from you
Let them say I'm asleep
And let them bring me back to you

Let them say I'm asleep
And let them bring me back to you
Beautiful and beloved Mexico
Should I die far from you

Let them bury me in the mountains
At the foot of the maguey/agave groves
And let this soil cover me,
This soil which is a cradle for upright men

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 11:26 AM

Thank you Monigue. No habla espanol, but this seems much clearer and better than the subtitles on the video (we know Lindo means beautiful, they used 'sweet', etc.) Have pasted this into my songbook for reference.

P.S. anybody who learns to sing this song: if you are a fellow then you use 'dormido' when it comes to the part about "say I'm asleep", but if you are of the female persuasion then you are 'dormida'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mexico Lindo y Querido
From: Monique
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 01:03 PM

Lindo can be translated as beautiful, nice, cute, sweet, fine... depending on the context and the feelings of whoever speaks.