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Un Barco Chiquitito (Cuban salsa)

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

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A “barco chiquitito” means little boat. There are several versions of this song, but in the most widely sung, there is a little boat that can’t set sail for seven weeks, during which time provisions start to run out. In one translation, crew members get so hungry they eat their boots “with red sauce and a walnut,” get very sick and have to turn back. In our version we not only let the ship sail, but say that it’s unable to stop sailing, then we also sing about an airplane that can’t stop flying, and, in class, we go through other modes of transport and say they can’t stop going either (a car, a bicycle, a pogo stick….).

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Habia una vez un barco chiquitito (3x)
Que no podia, no podia, no podia parar.

Once upon a time there was a little boat (3x)
That could that could that could not stop.

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from All Around This World: Latin America, released October 1, 2013
Vocals: Tony Perez
Bass: Rob Hagopian
Piano/Keyboard: John Stengel
Trombone: James Negron
Percussion: Arturo Stable
Original is "Un Barco Chiquitito" © Alpha Film Music on behalf of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,translation and arrangement by Jay Sand with permission

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