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Artist: Alfredo Zitarrosa
Canonical path: /alfredo-zitarrosa/duerme-negrito
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Duerme negrito
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Duerme negrito
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(Canción de cuna. Recopilación: Atahualpa Yupanqui)
Duerme, duerme negrito,
que tu mama está en el campo, negrito...
Duerme, duerme negrito,
que tu mama está en el campo, negrito...*
Te va a traer codornices para ti,
te va a traer rica fruta para ti,
te va a traer carne de cerdo para ti.
te va a traer muchas cosas para ti.
Y si negro no se duerme,
viene diablo blanco
y ¡zas! le come la patita,
¡chacapumba, chacapún…!
Duerme, duerme negrito,
que tu mama está en el campo, negrito...
Trabajando,
trabajando duramente, trabajando sí,
trabajando y no le pagan, trabajando sí,
trabajando y va tosiendo, trabajando sí,
trabajando y va de luto, trabajando sí,
pa'l negrito chiquitito, trabajando sí,
pa'l negrito chiquitito, trabajando sí,
no le pagan sí, va tosiendo sí
va de luto sí, duramente sí.
Duerme, duerme negrito,
que tu mama está en el campo, negrito...
(Versión de Atahualpa Yupanqui, registrada en París en 1969, que recogen distintos intérpretes, y no es la original)
Daniel Viglietti y Mercedes Sosa, que levanta la versión de aquél, dicen "mobila", en lugar de "negrito".
Los otros intérpretes le hacen modificaciones mínimas, no significativas.
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