“Cielito Lindo”

Description

Spanish: "Ese lunar que tienes, cielito lindo." Chorus: "Ay ay ay ay, canta y no llores, Porque cantando se allegran, cielito lindo, los corazones." The singer tells the girl of his love and how Cupid's arrow struck his heart

Notes

Fuld reports that Otto Mayer-Serro believes Quiruno Mendoza y Cortez wrote this song; Mendoza was granted copyright in Mexico in 1929. However, the earliest known printing (from 1919) lists no author, and Grove's Dictionary says the song was popular in Mexico before 1840. - RBW

Cross references

• cf "I-Yi-Yi-Yi (Limericks)" (tune)
• cf. "The Gay Caballero" (tune)
• cf. "Sweet Violets" (tune)

Recordings

• Pete Seeger, "Cielito Lindo" (on PeteSeeger17)

References

1. Sandburg, pp. 298-299, "Cielito Lindo" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. PSeeger-AFB, p. 23, "Cielito Lindo" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Silber-FSWB, p. 327, "Cielito Lindo" (1 text)
4. Fuld-WFM, p. 172, "Cielito Lindo"
5. DT, CIELITOL
6. BI, San298