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28 Sep 09 - 12:06 AM (#2732882) Subject: Lyr Add: DO-DO (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Jim Dixon This was requested in another thread. From The Elementary School Teacher, Volume 3 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, May, 1903) page 644: DO-DO. Spanish Lullaby. Little shoes are sold at the doorway of heaven, And to all the tattered little angels are given; Slumber, my darling, slumber, my darling, Slumber, my darling baby. Do-do, do-do, Ave Maria, do-do. [from] Sturgis and Blake, Songs of the Pyrenees. Boston: A. P. Schmidt, [1877]. |
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28 Sep 09 - 08:00 AM (#2733054) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Azizi Hello, Jim. Thanks for posting this song. I don't know it, but wanted to add something about the word "do do". In the context of that song, the phrase "do do" probably means something like "dearest one" or "sweetheart" (referencing a child and not a lover). See this entry from http://www.wiwords.com/word/doo+doo West Indian dictionary: "doo doo Noun Sweetheart Usage: From the French "doux doux", "doux" meaning sweet. Usually paired with darling - doux doux darling." -since- There's a discussion about the phrase "do do" in this Mudcat thread: Lyr Req: Yeller Gals - Doodle or Do Not? -snip- But "do do"="dearest" shouldn't be confused with the similarly spelled Creole word for "sleep". http://www.wiwords.com/word/doe+doe gives "sleep" as the meaning for "doe doe". Also, Urban Dictionary has this entry (among other meanings) for the phrase "do do": "Dodo To sleep, or go to sleep; from the Cajun French "fais do do." Used generally in the New Orleans area only (and surrounding smaller cities in Louisiana)" Mom: Go dodo dahlin' Daughter: G'nite Mama! -sniouo00sn |
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28 Sep 09 - 08:14 AM (#2733068) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Azizi Hmm. In re-reading the words of the song, it's probably more likely that "do do" here means "sleep". |
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28 Sep 09 - 09:59 AM (#2733146) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Monique "dodo" is French baby talk for "sleep", "le dodo" = "the dodo" means "the bed" e.g. "Je vais au dodo" = "I'm going to bed" and "faire dodo" (lit. "to do dodo") means "to sleep" Cf. "Fais dodo, Colas mon p'tit frère", "Dodo, l'enfant do". Moms lull their babies to sleep chanting "dodo, dodo do" the same way as Spanish speaking moms would chant "arrurú"/"arroró", English speaking moms would chant "lullaby" etc The Dictionnaire historique de la langue française (Historical Dictionary of the French Language) gives it to go back as early as 1465 and to be based on the onomatopoeic root "dod-" expressing swinging with a probable influence of the beginning of "dormir" = to sleep, "dors!" = "sleep!" The form "faire dodo" has first been attested in Charles d'Orléans's works (1394 - 1465) |
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28 Sep 09 - 10:20 AM (#2733164) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Azizi Hello,Monique! Thanks for that information. I wondered why this French word/phrase was part of a Spanish song-unless the editors mislabeled it. It occurred to me that the song was in a book that was titled Songs of the Pyrenees. Being geographically challenged, I decided to google the word "Pyrenees" and I visited its Wikipedia page. Here's an excerpt from that page: "The Pyrenees (also spelled Pyrenées... are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain.... They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about 430 km (267 mi) from the Bay of Biscay (Cap Higuer) to the Mediterranean Sea (Cap de Creus). For the most part, the main crest forms a massive divider between France and Spain, with the tiny country of Andorra sandwiched in between. Catalonia and the Basque Country have historically extended on both sides of the mountain range, with small northern portions in France and much larger southern parts in Spain[1][2]". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees ** Having read that, I'm wondering now if this song is both a Spanish and a French song. |
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28 Sep 09 - 11:09 AM (#2733196) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Monique I found the original version and it goes A las puertas del cielo A las puertas del cielo Venden zapatos Para los angelitos Que andan descalzos Duérmete niño (x3) Arrú arrú A los niños que duermen Dios los bendice A las madres que velan Dios las asiste Duérmete niño (x3) Arrú arrú You can find it on "48 berceuses du monde" from Arb Music and you can listen to a sample here or there, it's #7 on the second cd. Literal translation so you can see the differences between the original and the translation from the book At the gates of heaven (the sky) They sell shoes (not "little shoes") For the little angels that go/walk shoeless (not "tattered" which is "harapientos") Sleep, baby, Lullaby, lullaby The children who sleep God bless them The mothers who watch (meaning "watch over them") God assists them. So this "do do" thing has been introduced in English to translate "arrú" (same use of "arrurú" etc) but has no direct relation to the original lyrics. Now, what would be interesting would be to know who translated the Sp. idiom "arrú" into a Fr. idiom "dodo" for an Eng. translation! |
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28 Sep 09 - 01:28 PM (#2733323) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A las puertas del cielo From: Q (Frank Staplin) I have put a 'Lyr. Add' so that the song posted above by Monique may be picked up by Mudcat search. Monique, correct me if I am wrong, but arrú would be the imperative of the verb arrullar, to lull babes, noun arrullo, lullaby. Of course Pyrenean Spanish may be different. Just trying to get it straight in my mind. Thanks for posting this lullaby. I have looked for it in some Latin American compendia, but haven't found it. The do do in the old school book cited may have been to make it less strange to English-speakers. |
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28 Sep 09 - 08:02 PM (#2733657) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Monique Q- The imperative of the verb arrullar is "arrulla" for "tú" and "arrulle" for "usted" but you wouldn't say "arrulla" to the baby, you would to order someone to lull the baby to sleep. "Un arrullo" is a lullaby and "arrú" "arrurú" "arroró" the words the moms say to the babies. It seems that the verb and the noun are based on the onomatopoeia, not the other way round. Look: arrullar.(De la onomat. ru, según el modelo de aullar y maullar). 1. tr. Dicho de un palomo o de un tórtolo: Atraer con arrullos a la hembra, o esta a aquel. 2. tr. Adormecer al niño con arrullos. 3. tr. Dicho de un sonido o de un ruido: adormecer. 4. tr. coloq. Dicho de los enamorados: Decir palabras dulces y halagüeñas. U. t. c. prnl. "La palabra arrullo tiene su origen en el arrorró, vocablo onomatopéyico que desde tiempos inmemoriales sirve para adormecer a niñas y niños." For the non-Spanish speakers: arrullar (from the onomatopoeia ru, on the pattern of "aullar" (to bark) and "maullar" (to meow)) 1: transitive verb. Said about a cock pigeon or a cock turtle-dove, to attract the female with cooing, or she to him 2: transitive verb. To lull a baby to sleep with lullabies 3: said about a sound or a noise: to make sleepy 4:transitive verb - colloquial - Said about lovers: to say sweet and flattering words. Also used in pronominal form. "The word "arrullo" originates in "arrorró", an onomatopeic word that has been used from time immemorial to lull baby girls and boys" |
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28 Sep 09 - 10:26 PM (#2733738) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Q (Frank Staplin) Odd- In the Velasquez Spanish Dictionary, arrorró is given as Latin American for lullaby. arrorró is not in the Diccionario of the Real Academia Española. Confusing to one not conversant in the language. |
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29 Sep 09 - 10:15 PM (#2734675) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: Monique Guys, I found two scores of the song on "Niñez - Spanish Songs, Games and Stories of Childhood" by Virginia Nylander Ebinger - 1993 - Literary Collections - 80 pages |
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11 Nov 09 - 02:19 AM (#2763929) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes From: Joe Offer Here's the MIDI Monique sent. Thanks, Monique. Click to Play |
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16 Jan 10 - 05:55 PM (#2813920) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes From: GUEST,Carolyn W. in Milwaukee Jim Dixon, I just got around to checking my post from last September—thank you so much for verifying that I wasn't hallucinating about the existence of this song. My two-year-old grandson loves it, as he does "Little Owlet, Purple Owlet." Carolyn W. |
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20 Nov 12 - 08:47 AM (#3439207) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: GUEST We did this song in middle school choir. The English version went like: They are selling shoes at the gate of heaven for the barefoot angels who want to sell them sleep now my baby sleep now my baby aruu arru Blessed are the babies who dream, blessed are the mothers that watch them sleep now my baby sleep now my baby arru arru we did some in spanish too, but at the time I hadn't really gotten into it, so I dont remember what those are but an above post has them in spanish. |
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20 Nov 12 - 08:52 AM (#3439209) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: GUEST,Amanda Sutilla We did this song in middle school choir. The English version went like: They are selling shoes at the gate of heaven for the barefoot angels who want to sell them sleep now my baby sleep now my baby aruu arru Blessed are the babies who dream, blessed are the mothers that watch them sleep now my baby sleep now my baby arru arru we did some in Spanish too, but at the time I hadn't really gotten into it, so I don't remember what those are but an above post has them in Spanish. |
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20 Nov 12 - 08:56 AM (#3439211) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: GUEST,aman |
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20 Nov 12 - 08:57 AM (#3439212) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: GUEST,Amanda Sutilla Buy not Sell |
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20 Nov 12 - 09:14 AM (#3439218) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: GUEST,leeneia Azizi's post from Sept, 2009 explained that 'doux doux' meaning sweet, often accompanies 'darling.' Finally, after 40 years, I understand this deathless verse from the Kingston Trio: Took me girlfriend home the other night, Go meself in an awful fight. She said, "Doux, doux darling, won't you please come in?" Her old lady socked me a rolling pin! |
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14 Jan 16 - 09:30 AM (#3765467) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Do-do (Spanish lullaby) 'Little shoes...' From: GUEST Second verse: God will bless the mothers whose watch they are keeping God will bless the babies so tenderly sleeping Slumber my baby, slumber my baby, Slumber my baby, aroo, aroo? |