CAFÉ DE CHINITAS
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Based on a traditional Peteñeras melody that makes me dance around the room to my own drummer, this Flamenco-drenched story starts at a slow, moody rubato and then builds full speed ahead.
LYRICS
En el café de Chinitas
dijo Paquiro a su hermano:
«Soy más valiente que tú,
más torero y más gitano».
En el café de Chinitas
dijo Paquiro a Frascuelo:
«Soy más valiente que tú,
más gitano y más torero».
Sacó Paquiro el reló
y dijo de esta manera:
«Esto toro ha de morir
Antes de las cuatro y media».
Al dar las cuatro en la calle
se salieron del café:
y era Paquiro en la calle,
Un torero de cartel.
-traditional Spanish, collected by Federico García Lorca
in his account of folk music in Granada,
“How A City Sings From November to November”.
In the Chinese Café
Paquiro said to his brother:
“I am braver than you,
More of a bullfighter, more of a gypsy.”
In the Chinese Café
Paquiro said to Frascuelo:
“I am braver than you,
More of a gypsy, more of a bullfighter.”
Paquiro took out a watch
And said in this manner:
“This bull has to die
Before 4:30.”
When four o’clock came in the street
They left the café,
And there is Paquiro in the street