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Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
PERFORMER(S)
Trujillo, Amado; vocal
Chavez, Adelaido; violin
Chavez, Adolfo; guitar
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INSTRUMENTATION
Violin, guitar
GENRE
Canción
NOTES
Mr. Trujillo, age 48, is a resident of Romeo, Colorado.
Played by Adelaido Chavez, 68, violinist, resident of Antonito, Colorado, and his brother Adolfo Chavez, 65, guitarist and resident of Romeo, Colorado.
LOCATION
Antonito, Colorado
DATE
1940/08/04
TRANSCRIPTION
Bienaventurados sean los lectores
y los anunciantes y los suscritores,
los agentes todos del pueblo cuidar,
siempre que nos traten con puntualidad.
Bienaventurados sean los maridos
que ya no vacilan fuera de sus nidos,
los que hacen sus esposas tratando en cariño
lavan los trastes y limpian los niños.
Bienaventurados sean los solteros
que no tienen vicios ni son parranderos,
y que lo que ganan toda la semana
lo entregan al padre o la madre o el hermano.
Bienaventuradas sean las señoras
que están en sus casas contando las horas,
que tienen los ojo puestos en su hogar
y no nos dan chanzas para vacilar.
Bienaventuradas, se hallan las lectoras
jóvenes y niñas, viudas y señoras
que están en la boda o allá en el fogón
véalo, que ya piensan en el vacilón.
Bienaventuradas, y anda señoritas
morenas y blancas, que son muy bonitas,
que tienen un novio y nunca de a dos
y qué hace si se casan como manda Dios.
Bienaventuradas que sean las viudas
que ven a los hombres y se muestran mudas
las que ya no piensan en volverse a casar
y al pobre difunto dejan descansar.
Bienaventuradas que sean las suegras
siempre no asomen las uñas muy feas,
que dan en la gloria y no en el infierno
y nunca molesten al pobre del yerno.
English Translation
Blessed be the readers,
and announcers and subscribers,
all the agents watching the people,
as long as they treat us punctually.
Blessed be the husbands
who don't roam away from their nests,
those who aid their wives dealing in affection,
washing dishes and cleaning the children.
Blessed be the bachelors
who don't have vices and don't go on binges,
and all they earn in a week
they give to father or mother or brother.
Blessed be those wives
who are in their houses counting the hours,
who have their eyes fixed on their home
and don't give us chances to mess around.
Blessed be those readers,
young women and girls, widows and wives,
who are at weddings, or there by the stove,
see, they are thinking about messing around.
Blessed are those, young women
dark skinned and white, who are very pretty,
who have one boyfriend and never two
and who cares if they marry as God wills.
Blessed be, the widows
who look at men and become mute,
those that don't think about marrying again
who let the poor husband rest in peace.
Blessed be, the mothers-in-law,
who don't always show their ugly claws,
who are found in heaven and not in hell
and never bother their poor sons-in-law.
MEDIUM
Audio
CALL NUMBER
AFS 3923a1
DIGITAL ID
afcrael 3923a1
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