Country: Mexico
Original language: Spanish
“La Gucamaya” is a son jarocho song from Veracruz in Mexico. (A guacamaya is a parrot.)
Instruments particular to son jarocho include a jarana, a quijada (a donkey jawbone used for
percussion), a requinto, a mariumbula, a harp and a wooden dancing platform known as a tarima that
the musicians actually consider a percussion instrument and factor into the arrangement of son jarocho
songs.
Pobrecita guacamaya,
you're a hungry little bird
You're a hungry little bird,
pobrecita guacamaya
Pobrecita guacamaya,
I will share my food with you
If you only help me too,
pobrecita guacamaya
Fly fly fly,
Will you teach me how to fly?
Pobrecita guacamaya,
We could leave the world behind
Vuela, vuela, vuela
Will you teach me how to fly?
Pobrecita guacamaya,
Pour our hearts out to the sky
*"Pobrecita guacamaya" = poor little parrot
*"Vuela" is fly
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Many thanks to Jay Sand for permission to display these lyrics.
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