Kilo Lingo

Spanish · Chapter 21 · Lesson 21 · Vocabulary

Song: Las mañanitas

Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

Las mañanitas

The Little Morning Songs

The singer adds the famous Despierta, mi bien verse, which has a named twentieth-century author and is still under copyright in Mexico - so we do not print it. The verses below are the song's anonymous, older core; read along with those.

Lyrics

Copla 1

David,

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Copla 2

,

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Copla 3

,

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, ,

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New words in this song

Comprehension drill

4 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

The anonymous coplas documented on Mexico City broadsides (Vanegas Arroyo press, 1880-1917) and in the Cancionero folklórico de México, with a 1904 field recording in the Lummis collection as audio evidence. Two famous later verses have named 20th-century authors still in term in Mexico, so this page prints only the anonymous coplas. Source text. Translation ours.

Open the full song page for the background to the song.

Lesson 21 of 24 in this chapter

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