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Origins: Nicaragua, Nicaraguita (Mejia Godoy)

17 Aug 14 - 12:16 AM (#3651512)
Subject: ADD: Nicaragua, Nicaragüita
From: Joe Offer

Here's another one I came across. It's a beautiful little song. Can anybody tell me anything about this song? Do I have the lyrics correct? Got a good translation?


Sezione: La contestazione e i movimenti di liberazione (1967-1979)
Autore testo: Carlos Mejia Godoy

Nicaragua Nicaragüita
(Carlos Mejia Godoy)


Ay, Nicaragua, Nicaraguita
recibe como prenda de amor
este ramo de siemprevivas y jilinjoches
que hoy florecen para vos

Cuando yo beso tu frente
beso la perla de tu sudor
mas dulcita que la frutita de tibuilote
y el jocote tronador

Ay, Nicaragua, Nicaraguita
mi cogollito de pijibay
mi pasion se enterro
en ei surco de tu querencia
como un granito

Es tu saliva alaste y dulcita
como la savia del maranon
que restana con alegria todos los dias
mi rebelde corazon

Ay, Nicaragua, Nicaraguita
la flor mas linda de mi querer
abonada con la bendita Nicaraguita
sangre de Diriangen

Ay, Nicaragua sos mas dulcata
que la mielita de tamagas
pero ahora que ya sos libre, Nicaraguita
yo te quiero mucho mas


Informazioni
Canzone composta, come molte altre famose di Mejía Godoy, durante i primi anni del governo sandinista, per la "Crociata nazionale di alfabetizzazione" (da Canzoni contro la Guerra)
Like many others, this song was composed by the famous Mejía Godoy, during the first years of the Sandinista government, for the "National Literacy Crusade" (from Songs against War).
Source: http://www.ildeposito.org/archivio/canti/nicaragua-nicarag%C3%BCita

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEzlV9WyRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeXPlpTEL8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Mej%C3%ADa_Godoy

24 Apr 25 - 07:59 AM (#4221534)
Subject: RE: Origins: Nicaragua, Nicaraguita (Mejia Godoy)
From: GUEST,Argentina

Hai mai sentito parlare di "Zamba de mi esperanza"? Questa canzone nicaraguense suona uguale, perfino il testo. Ma con 30 anni di differenza tra una creazione e l'altra

Mod running this through Google Translate:
Have you ever heard of "Zamba de mi esperanza"? This Nicaraguan song sounds the same, even the lyrics. But with 30 years of difference between one creation and the other

24 Apr 25 - 02:00 PM (#4221542)
Subject: RE: Origins: Nicaragua, Nicaraguita (Mejia Godoy)
From: Joe Offer

Very interesting. The Spanish Wikipedia confirms the connection between the two songs.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamba_de_mi_esperanza
    "Zamba de mi esperanza" was composed by Luis Profili in the 1950s. Profili (1906-1975) was a construction entrepreneur from Mendoza who lived in San Martín . He was a fan of folk music, especially zamba . He sang accompanying himself on the guitar or bass drum and composed songs with no knowledge of musical notation. One of these songs was "Zamba de mi esperanza", which became well-known among the participants in the peñas and gatherings of friends where Profili would sing occasionally.

    In those circumstances, she was heard by Los Hermanos Albarracín , a duo from La Rioja related to Jorge Cafrune, "el Turco", a singer from Jujuy of Arab origin, who had recorded the song "Virgen india" by the Albarracín on his album, Folklore (1962), which also became his first hit.

    It was recorded as the opening track of Cafrune's fifth solo album, Emoción, canto y guitarra (1964). Horacio Fontova has joked about its popularity, saying that "anyone who doesn't know Zamba de mi esperanza is a marine ."

    Argentina was experiencing a boom in Argentine folk music , which was becoming increasingly popular, within the framework of major socioeconomic transformations, characterized by a broad process of industrialization centered in Buenos Aires , which drove a large wave of internal migration from 1930 onwards, from the countryside to the city and from the provinces ( interior ) to the Capital .

    In January 1978 Jorge Cafrune sang "Zamba de mi esperanza" at the Cosquín Festival. A few days later, on January 31, 1978, he was killed by a hit-and-run driver as the artist was riding on horseback to Yapeyú . There are serious suspicions that it was a murder ordered by the military government and carried out by then-Lieutenant Carlos Villanueva, whom two survivors of the La Perla clandestine detention center have pointed to as the person who said that "he had to be killed to prevent other singers from doing the same." [ Note 1 ]

    Three years later, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy composed "Nicaragua Nicaragüita", an emblematic song of the Sandinista Revolution , which contains a musical fragment, in the second verse, very similar to the melody of "Zamba de mi esperanza". Salvadoran poet Nora Méndez has investigated the origin of Mejía Godoy's song and discovered that it was conceived in the house of an Argentine woman, concluding that Profili's zamba, already world-famous in Cafrune's version, surely influenced that fragment of "Nicaragua Nicaragüita".


    Zamba de mi esperanza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmBUqwxUvWM

    Carlos Mejía Godoy & Los de Palacaguina – Nicaragua, Nicaraguita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5r0cbJ3kOs