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La Guacamaya (Mexico, son jarocho)

from All Around This World: Latin America by All Around This World

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“La Gucamaya” is a son jarocho song from Veracruz in Mexico. A guacamaya is a parrot, though I can’t say exactly what kind of parrots exist in Veracruz. Instruments particular to son jarocho include a jarana, a quijada (a donkey jawbone used for percussion, which is what I played during the recording), 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.

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Pobrecito guacamaya, you’re a hungry little bird
You’re a hungry little bird pobrecito guacamaya
Pobrecito guacamaya, I will share my food with you
If you only help me too, pobrecito guacamaya
Fly, fly, fly, can you teach me how to fly?
Pobrecito guacamaya, we can leave the world behind
Vuela, vuela, vuela, can you teach me how to fly?
Pobrecito guacamaya, we can leave the world behind

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from All Around This World: Latin America, released October 1, 2013
Son Jarocho magic: Radio Jarocho

Radio Jarocho is:

Gabriel Guzmán: jarana, vocals
Julia del Palacio: bailadora, vocals
Juan Carlos Marín: requinto, vocals
Emmanuel Huitzil: marimbol
Carlos Cuestas: leona, vocals

Hand percussion: Arturo Stable

Quijada: Jay Sand

Background vocals: Arturo Stable, Jay Sand

"La Guacamaya" is traditional. English lyrics and arrangement by Jay Sand.

Recorded at Headgear Recording, Brooklyn, New York

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