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Owlsong Productions Inc.
Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 15, 2020
To put it plainly, we are artists – musicians, who draw our strength and inspiration from our fans and friends, which includes you if you are here. We respect your privacy and will not sell your personal information or use it except to occasionally inform you about and deliver to you our products and services and to enhance our website as we try to make your experience better. We intend to be transparent and fully compliant with law.
– Alan Lewine and Ana María Ruimonte
You can read our policies in detail below. We suggest you read this carefully.
This Privacy Policy describes the Owlsong Productions Inc. (“Our”) policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
You, Your and similar pronouns means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Under GDPR (European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.
Company (referred to as either “the Company“, “We“, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Owlsong Productions Inc., 295 E Roosevelt St, Suite 523, Phoenix, AZ 85004.
For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Website refers to Owlsong Productions, accessible from https://www.owlsong.com/
Service refers to the Website.
Country refers to: the United States
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by us to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on Our behalf, to perform services related to the Service or to assist us in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
Facebook Fan Page is a public profile named OWLSONG PRODUCTIONS specifically created by Us on the Facebook social network, accessible from this page
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
For the purposes for GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
CCPA means the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100-1798.199)
Business, for the purpose of the CCPA, refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.
Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA, means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.
Sale, for the purpose of the CCPA, means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s Personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Depending on how You use Our Service, We may ask you to provide to Us personally identifiable information that may include, without limitation:
Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service.
You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser. Learn more about cookies: All About Cookies.
We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, to contact You.
For Business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us. As of the date of this Privacy Policy, We have no Affiliates other than the principals, Ana María Ruimonte and Alan Lewine.
With Business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners such as Bandcamp to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact with Third Party Social Media Services such as Facebook or Twitter, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: click here
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.
For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: click here
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
PayPal
Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at this link
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.
Facebook Fan Page
Data Controller for the Facebook Fan Page
The Company is the Data Controller of Your Personal Data collected while using the Service. As operator of the Facebook Fan Page, the Company and the operator of the social network Facebook are Joint Controllers.
The Company has entered into agreements with Facebook that define the terms for use of the Facebook Fan Page, among other things. These terms are mostly based on the Facebook Terms of Service: Facebook Terms
Visit the Facebook Privacy Policy for more information about how Facebook manages Personal data or contact Facebook online, or by mail: Facebook, Inc. ATTN, Privacy Operations, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.
Facebook Insights
We use the Facebook Insights function in connection with the operation of the Facebook Fan Page and on the basis of the GDPR, in order to obtain anonymized statistical data about Our users.
For this purpose, Facebook places a Cookie on the device of the user visiting Our Facebook Fan Page. Each Cookie contains a unique identifier code and remains active for a period of two years, except when it is deleted before the end of this period.
Facebook receives, records and processes the information stored in the Cookie, especially when the user visits the Facebook services, services that are provided by other members of the Facebook Fan Page and services by other companies that use Facebook services.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook Privacy Policy here: Facebook Full Data Use Policy
CCPA Privacy
Your Rights under the CCPA
Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:
The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes.
The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You also have the right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.
The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following:
The categories of Personal Data collected
The sources from which the Personal Data was collected
The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data
Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data
The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You
The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.
The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer’s rights, including by:
Denying goods or services to You
Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You
Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights
In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, You can email or call us or visit our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.
The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
We do not sell personal information. However, the Service Providers we partner with (for example, our advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that “sells” personal information as defined by the CCPA law.
If you wish to opt out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.
Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.
Website
You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:
From Our “Cookie Consent” notice banner
Or from Our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link
The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.
Mobile Devices
Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:
“Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
“Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.
Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.
California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.
Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
By email: alan@owlsong.com
By mail: 295 E ROOSEVELT ST, SUITE 523, PHOENIX, AZ 85004
Tracklist:
1. LAS CUMADRES FECHICERAS 5:36
2. LA INFANTICIDA 3:40
3. EL REY CUANDO AMADRUGABA 3:33
4. AL PASAR POR CASABLANCA 4:39
5. EN CASA DEL REY LEÓN 4:34
6. TRISTE ESTÁ EL REY DAVID 4:45
7. MALDICIENDO EL REY 3:58
8. TRISTES NUEVAS 4:30
9. DÍAS DE LA SEMANA 3:09
10. CANTIGA DE CUNA 2:56
11. SEÑOR DON GATO 2:02
12. VIDO VENIR TRES A CABALLO 6:05
13. TRES MORILLAS DE JAÉN 3:38
14. LA TARARA 2:33
15. ANDA JALEO 2:28
Release details
Release Date: July 24, 2020
Catalog #: AR0015
Format: Physical & Digital
Mixed & master: under the direction of Alan Lewine in South Philadelphia by multi-GRAMMY® winner Mike Tarsia
Lyrics
LAS CUMADRES FECHICERAS
Nannies and nursemaids had power to exchange their own babies for the babies of their employers. Their life dedicated to service could be hard and difficult, and they don’t want the same life for their own children, so… why not? Who was going to realize when all infants look so similar?
Las niñeras tenían el poder de cambiar sus propios hijos por los de sus señoras, porque su vida de sirvientas era dura y difícil y … ellas no deseaban su propia vida para sus hijos, así que ¿Por qué no cambiarlos? ¿Quién se iba a darse cuenta de ello?
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Ya la echan a la reina en cama de seda fina,
ya la echan a la esclava en sacos de la cocina.
Las cumadres fechiceras trocan a las criaturas.
Nani, nani, la mi hija, criada que non parida
criada de los mis pechos, de mi tripa non salida.
Las cumadres fechiceras trocan a las criaturas.
Ya la echan a la reina en cama de seda fina
ya la echan a la esclava en sacos de la cocina.
Las cumadres fechiceras trocan a las criaturas.
Ya la llamalo la reina, ven arriba la esclavica,
cántame esa cantiga.
Las cumadres fechiceras trocan a las criaturas,
oh, oh, oh.
THE MAGIC NANNIES
They laid with the queen on a bed of fine silk,
they laid with the slave on the sacs in the kitchen.
The magic nannies exchange the children.
Sleep, sleep, my daughter,
grown by me but not given birth by me,
grown by my breasts.
She didn’t come from my womb.
The magic nannies exchange the children,
oh, oh, oh.
They laid the queen on fine silk sheets,
they laid the slave on sacs from the kitchen.
The magic nannies exchange the children.
The queen has already called her
“Come up, my little slave, sing that song for me again”.
The magic nannies exchange the children,
oh, oh, oh.
LA INFANTICIDA
They were not always so good…
She was married with a beautiful person, who needs to go for a time, probably to the war… During his absences, she found a new lover… However, his son talked too much, telling everything that happened in the house to his father, who didn’t actually pay much attention… During one of the husband’s travels, the stepmother decided to kill the son to silence him. She cut him in pieces, cooked him, and on her husband’s return offered him a fine stew … But, the boy’s tongue spoke from the plate, telling of the wife’s infidelity …
Ellas… no siempre eran tan buenas…
Ocurrió que estaba casada con una bella persona, la cual tuvo que marcharse posiblemente para ir a la guerra… Durante sus ausencias, ella ya había encontrado un nuevo amante… Sin embargo, su hijo hablaba demasiadocontándole todo al padre que por otro lado, no le prestaba mucha atención… Durante uno de sus viajes, la madre tomó la determinación de matarlo. Y no sólo eso, sino que lo cortó en pedazos, lo cocinó, y se lo ofreció al marido a su regreso… Pero, la lengua habló en el plato descubriendo todo lo sucedido…
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Era un pobre lucero casado con una falsa,
la falsa tenía un hijo, el mayor que hay en la plaza;
todo lo que pasa en casa a su padre lo contara.
“Padre mío y de mi alma, un alférez entró en casa.
Yo lo he visto con mi madre en su arreglada cama.”
El padre ni hacía caso de lo que su hijo contara;
armaría grande viaje de Francia para Granada.
Dejó que el padre se fuera y a su hijo degollara;
le cortara la su lengua y a los perros se la diera.
Los perros, como eran nobles, en el suelo la dejaran,
con lo que quedó la carne hizo una gran cazolada.
Cuando viniera el marido por su hijo preguntara:
“Adónde mi hijo, mujer, que yo no le veo en casa?”
“Siéntate, marido, y come, y te contaré lo que pasa:
Un día, yendo a los campos, y en los campos de
Granada, busqué por mi hijo querido,
Dio del cielo me lo traiga.”
Ellos en estas palabras, la carne del plato habla:
“Padre mío y de mi alma, no comas a mis entrañas,
que esta madre que yo tengo merecía degollarla.”
Como esto oyera la falsa se encerrara en una sala.
Fue el marido a abrir, no encontró falsa ni nada.
Encontró un pájaro verde contándole su desgracia.
THE INFANTICIDE
A poor but pure man was married with a false woman.
They had a child, the oldest of the neighborhood;
everything that happened at home, he would tell his father.
“My dear father, father of my soul, an officer came home, I’ve seen him with my mother on her bed.”
His father ignored what his son said;
he was going to make a great trip from France to Granada.
After the father left, the woman beheaded her son:
she cut out his tongue and gave it to her dogs.
But the dogs were honorable, so they left the boy’s tongue on the ground.
Then with the meat she made a great stew.
When the husband came back, he asked where was his son.
“where is my son, wife? I don’t see him in the house.”
“Sit down, my husband, and eat. I’ll tell you what happened:
One day, going to the countryside, in the countryside near Granada,
I searched for my dear son. I prayed to heaven to bring him back.”
With these words, the meat on the plate spoke and said:
“My dear father, papa of my soul, don’t eat me,
because it is my mother who deserves to be beheaded.”
As the false woman heard that, she locked herself in a room.
When the husband opened the door, he didn’t find her or anything.
He found a green bird, telling of her disgrace.
EL REY CUANDO AMADRUGABA
The women were not always so good…
It happened at sunrise … when the king woke up, he discovered his wife looking at her mirror and talking to it… confessing that she had four children, but two of them, the ones she preferred, were not sons of the king… When he realized that, the king condemned the queen to die. She couldn’t give any excuse, for the king didn’t want to hear her anymore.
Ellas… no siempre eran tan buenas…
Sucedió al amanecer… cuando el rey se despertó, descubrió a su mujer mirándose al espejo y la escuchó conversar y confesar que ella tiene cuatro hijos en total, pero que sólo dos de ellos son hijos del rey, siendo los otros dos sus preferidos… Al enterarse de todo esto, el rey la condena a muerte. No hay excusa posible, pues el rey no la escuchará.
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El rey cuando madrugaba, ande la reina posaba,
la topaba en el espejo, mirando su hermosura,
dando gracias al de en Alto que la crio i tan
hermosa.
“Dos hijicos del rey tengo, y dos tuyos hacen cuatro,
los del rey comen esparte, y los tuyos con mí en
junto.
Los del rey son caballeros, y los tuyos son
caballeros,
los del rey visto de paño, los tuyos de plata y sirma.”
Ella que se avoltaba, el rey ya se demudaba.
“Perdónamelo, señor rey, que esto fue una soñada.”
“Ya te lo pedrono, reina, con un yerdán corolado.”
“Angelino, Angelino, tú premer m’enamorado,
dame tú a mí un consejo, que del rey vo ser matada.”
“Para mí ya tengo consejo, para ti, va búscatelo,
tuviendo tú marido rey, ¿para cuálo buscas otro?”
WHEN THE KING GOT UP EARLY
When the King got up early, where the queen was posing,
he found her in front of the mirror, admiring her beauty,
giving thanks to God that she had grown so pretty.
“I have two sons, and with the other two of you, I have four,
the sons of the king eat separately but yours eat together with me.
The sons of the king are gentlemen, and yours are too,
the sons of the king dress in cloth, yours with silver and firma.”
Then she turned back and she saw that the king was there.
“Forgive me, my King, for I was dreaming”.
“I forgive you, queen, with a red necklace.”
“Angelino, Angelino, give me some advice,
for the king is going to kill me.”
“I have advice for me; for you: go and look for some,
for you have a king for a husband, why are you looking for another man?”
AL PASAR POR CASABLANCA
You might not want to trust first appearances.
Alejandro tells us that during one of his travels he found a beautiful Moorish girl washing her clothes in a fountain. He immediately fell in love and asked her to go with him. She responded that she is not a Moorish girl, but a captive since she was little, (perhaps a conversa or Christian convert from Judaism?). While they rode together to his hometown, Alejandro discovered that the captive girl was his own sister.
No hay que fiarse de las apariencias.
Nos cuenta Alejandro que en uno de sus viajes encuentró a una bella mora lavando en una fuente. El se enamoró de ella, rogándole que le acompañara. Ella le contestó que no era mora, sino que fue cautivada por los moros durante una fiesta de Pascua en la primavera.. Mientras se dirigían a caballo a su pueblo, Alejandro descubrió que la mora cautiva se trataba de su propia hermana.
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Al pasar por Casablanca pasé por la morería
encontré mora lavando al pie de una fuente fría.
Yo le dije: “Mora bella”. Yo le dije: “Mora linda,
deja abrevar mis caballos de este agua cristalina”.
“No soy mora, caballero, que soy cristiana cautiva,
que me cautivaron moros día de Pascua Florida”.
“Ven conmigo, mora bella. Ven conmigo, mora linda!”
“Y mis ropas, caballero, ¿a quén yo las dejaría?”
“Las de seda y las de lana contigo las llevaría,
las que no lo valen nada, al agua las tiraría”.
Al pasar por esos montes la mora llora y suspira.
“¿Por qué lloras, mora bella? ¿Por qué lloras, mora linda?”
“Lloro porque en estos montes mi padre a cazar venía
con mi hermanito Alejandro y toda su compañía”.
“Abrir puertas y ventanas, balcones y celusías,
que en vez de traer mujer traigo yo una hermana
mía”.
PASSING THROUGH CASABLANCA
I passed through Casablanca, passing through the Moorish area
I found a Moorish girl doing laundry at the foot of a cold fountain.
I told her: “Beautiful Muslim girl”. I told her: “Pretty Moor, let my horses drink from this clear water”.
“I am not a Moor, Sir, I am a captive Christian girl who was captured by the Moors on the Easter Feast of Flowers”.
“Come with me, beautiful Moor. Como with me, pretty Moor”.
“And, what about my clothes, Sir? Who can I leave them with?”
“You should take with you the clothes of silk and wool,
the others that are not valuable, you could throw them in the water”.
When they pass through those mountains, the girl weeped and sighed.
“Why do you cry, beautiful Moor? Why do you cry, pretty girl?”
“I cry because my father came to hunt in these mountains with my little brother Alejandro, and all his companions.”
“Open doors and windows, open the balconies and shutters,
because instead of bringing a wife, I bring my sister”.
EN CASA DEL REY LEÓN
Jimena, an aristocratic (but perhaps not wealthy) woman from Castile asks for justice from the king. A very rich and powerful man known as the Man of the Country – Cid Campeador (El Cid) – had killed her father. To pay the debt off and bring peace the king orders them married. This is fair decision and Jimena shows her happiness.
Jimena, una noble de Castilla pide justicia al rey. Un poderoso y rico caballero llamado el Cid Campeador había matado a su padre. Para saldar la deuda pendiente, el rey ordena su casamiento. Este es el concepto del honor y con esta decisión, Jimena se muestra contenta.
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En casa del rey León salió Jimena una tarde:
Demandando iba justicia por la muerte de su padre.
“Justicia, señor, justicia si me la queries juzgare:
cada día que amanece veo al que mató a mi padre;
se mete con mis palomas, cuántas en mi palomare:
las gordas él las comía, las flacas, sus gavilanes,
y las que menos valían me las echa a revolare.”
“Todo el que esto no juzga no merece de reinare,
ni comer pan en manteles, ni con la reina folgare,
de casaros con el Cidi, sabiendo que tanto vale”.
Alegre salió Jimena de los palacios reales
y al día por la mañana, las ricas bodas se hacen.
IN THE HOUSE OF THE KING OF LEÓN
In the house of the king of León
Jimena left one afternoon:
She had demanded justice for the death of her father.
“Justice, Sir, Justice, if you want to judge me:
Every day at sunrise, I see my father’s killer.
He went to my doves, so many in the pigeon house,
the fat ones he ate, the thin ones, he gave to his pigeon hawks.
And he shooed away my less valuable birds.”
“If I don’t do justice, I may not eat bread on a table cloth, or lay with the queen.
I order Jimena married to El Cid, who as all knew is so rich.”
Jimena left the royal palace happy and the next morning they had a rich wedding.
TRISTE ESTÁ EL REY DAVID
King David gathers together his wife and children to inform them of the sad news of the death of his son Absalom. He tells them to dress in black and avoid wearing green or fancy clothes.
El rey David se reúne con su esposa y sus hijos para transmitirles la triste noticia de la muerte de su hijo Absalom. Les dice que vistan de negro, el color del luto, y que no lleven ropas verdes ni con vuelos.
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Triste está el rey David, triste está de corazón,
que lo mataron a su hijo, al su hijo, Absalom.
Por desechar las sus angustias, afuera él ya salió.
Alzó sus ojos a lo lejos, ande despunta el sol.
Vido venir un caballero, más preto que el carbón.
Echó la mano en su sillo, carta cerrada le dio,
sillada con siete sillos, más preta que el carbón.
Ven aquí la mi mujer, de preto vos vistas vos,
que lo mataron al mi hijo, al su hijo, Absalom.
Ven aquí, los mis mozos, quitares ales y vedres
que lo mataron al mi hijo, al su hijo, Absalom.
KING DAVID IS SAD
King David is sad, sad is his heart too,
because they’ve killed his son, his son Absalom.
To put aside his sadness, he went outside.
He looked up toward where the sun rises,
he saw a knight coming darker than charcoal.
He took his seals, and finished a letter
closed by seven seals, tighter than charcoal.
“Come here, my wife, because
they’ve killed my son, your son, Absalom.”
“Come here, my young men, remove your clothes,
dress yourself in black
because they’ve killed my son, your son Absalom.”
MALDICIENDO EL REY
The king has seven daughters and not one son. The youngest wanted to go with him to the war. She said she would dress as a man to fight. During the battle, her covering came undone and her tunic fell open (wardrobe malfunction!). The leader of the Moorish forces fell in love at first sight. They celebrate peace at their royal wedding.
El rey tiene siete hijas y la más pequeña se ofrece a acompañarle a la guerra, vistiéndose como hombre. Durante la lucha, su cinturón se le cae y el moro que lucha con ella se enamora inmediatamente. La paz se celebra con su boda real.
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Maldiciendo el rey va la vientre que tanta hija parió.
Parió siete hijitas hembras sen ningún hijo varón.
Saltó la más chica de ellas, la que en buen día nació,
no nos maldigas, mi padre, no nos maldigas, siñor.
Si es por la vuestra guerra, la guerra la venzo yo
traiga armas y caballo y un vistido de varón
¿Onde metes las tus colas? Debajo el kauk, señor
¿Onde metes los tus pechos? Debajo el jibón señor.
Calla, calla, la mi hija, hembra sos y non varón.
Ya se parte el caballero a las guerras d’Aragón.
Ella entrando por la guerra, la guerra ya la venció
y en el medio de la guerra, el kalpak se le cayó.
El hijo el rey que la vía de enfrente ya cayó, se desmayó.
Ya me muero la mi madre, ya me muero d’esté amor!
Esta que venció la guerra, hembra es y no varón.
Ya me meten bodas en medio, ya los casan a los dos,
ya se meten de acordo y la paz ya se siñó.
THE KING WHO CURSED A WOMB
The king cursed a womb that bore so many daughters.
It gave birth to seven daughters, none of his children were male.
One day the youngest daughter said:
“Don’t curse us, father, don’t curse us, Lord.
If it’s because of your war, I’ll win the war myself.
Bring me weapons, a horse, and a boy’s suit.”
“Where would you put your hair?”
“Inside the helmet, Lord.”
“Where would you hide your breasts?” “Under the coat, Lord.”
“Quiet daughter, you’re a woman not a man”.
The knight left for the war in Aragón.
As she entered the battle, she won it.
And in the battle, her helmet fell down.
The other king’s son who was in front of her fell down, he fainted:
“I’m dying, mother, I’m dying because of this love!
This girl who won the war is a woman not a man.”
Now weddings take place, now they get married,
now they agree with each other, now they sign peace.”
TRISTES NUEVAS
A girl is in love with an aristocrat who visited her frequently. She discovered that her lover was going to get married with a very rich and powerful woman. When she asks him, he admits it and invites her to his wedding. She is devastated. She recognizes that love destroyed her heart.
Una joven está muy enamorada de un aristócrata que la visita a menudo. Descubre que su amante va a contraer matrimonio con una mujer de alto rango. Al confirmárselo él durante una de sus visitas con motivo de invitarle a su boda, ella se derrumba. Reconoce que el amor le ha destrozado el corazón.
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“Tristes nuevas, tristes nuevas se decían por Sevilla,
que se casa el conde de Alba, conde de Alba y de
mi vida”.
Se paseaba por su cuarto donde lloraba y cantaba,
sus blancas manos retuerce y sus anillos torcía.
Vio venir al conde de Alba, con toda su compañía,
“Conde de Alba, conde de Alba, conde de Alba y de
mi vida,
que me han dicho que te casas con dama de gran
valía”.
“Quién te lo vino a decir que mentiras no decía,
mis bodas serán mañana y a convidarte venía”.
Esto que oyó la niña, de punto cayó la niña:
“Ay, qué malos son los amores, pero yo no lo sabía,
que se pone el corazón de abajo para arriba”.
SAD NEWS, SAD NEWS
“Sad news, sad news, they said in Seville,
about the Count of Alba, the Count of Alba and of my life.”
She paced in her room crying and singing,
twisting her white hands and turning her rings.
She saw the Count of Alba coming with all his company.
“Count of Alba, Count of Alba, Count of Alba and of my life,
someone told me you are getting married with a wealthy lady”
“Whoever told you that didn’t lie,
my wedding is tomorrow, and I came here to invite you”.
When the girl heard that, she fell in a faint.
“Oh, how bad is love but I didn’t know then
that the heart will be turned down to up.”
DÍAS DE LA SEMANA
The woman always had work to do. She talked to her husband to tell him that every one of her days was dedicated to the keeping the home and washing and rinsing their clothes. Even on Saturday, the day of the Sabbath, she had to give her time to embroidery and could not attend services and study at the synagogue.
Esta mujer hacendosa habla con su marido para contarle que cada día de la semana lo debe dedicar al lavado y enjuagado de sus ropas. Por eso, el sábado que es día festivo necesita dedicarlo a bordar.
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Día del alhad torno y vijito
Marido así bivax vos
Y cuando querex que labre este lindo bastidor?
Maridico así bivax vox.
Día de lunes paso colada,
día de martes labuygo y enxaguo.
Maridico así bivax vox
DAYS OF THE WEEK
On the Sabbath my husband comes with things for us to do.
And, when do you want me to embroider this beautiful cloth?
That is how my husband lives.
On Monday, I do the laundry.
On Tuesday, I wash and I rinse.
So that my husband can live.
CANTIGA DE CUNA
En esta nana se narra la historia del rey que tenía tres hijas que se dedican a cortar tela, coser, bordar y mientras lavan les entra el sueño.
A lullaby about a king who had three daughters: One of them cuts, the other sews, and the last one works on the embroidery. While washing, they feel sleepy.
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Aquel rey de Francia tres hijas tenía
la una cortaba y la otra cuzía
y la más chiquitica bastidor hacía.
Lavando, lavando es fueño le venía.
LULLABY OF THE CRADLE
That king of France had three daughters.
One of them cut, another cooked,
and the little one embroidered.
Washing and washing the dream arrived.
SEÑOR DON GATO
This song for children, still popular today in the Spanish-speaking world, is about a black cat that was to get married to a beautiful white cat. But when he receives her letter wanting a kiss, he falls off the roof. But the Spanish cat has seven lives, and during his funeral procession, when his coffin turns out to be a reused box that took fish to the market, he comes back to life because he loves the smell of the sardines.
Esta canción infantil, todavia popular, es sobre un gato negro que se tiene que casar con una gatita blanca. Al enterarse por medio de una carta, el gato se cae del tejado. Pero como tiene 7 vidas, resucita durante su entierro, en el momento en que huele las sardinas.
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Estaba el señor don Gato sentadito en su tejado,
maram miau miau, miau, miau
Ha recibido una carta, que si quiere ser casado
con una gatita blanca, sobrina de un gato pardo.
El gato fue a darle un beso y se cayó del tejado.
Se partió siete costillas y un brazo.
Ya lo llevan a enterrar en una caja de pescado.
Al olor de las sardinas el gato ha resucitado.
TOP CAT
Mr. Cat was sat on his roof,
Meow, meow, meow.
He has received a letter asking him to get married
with a white kitty, the niece of a dark cat.
The cat was going to kiss her but he falls of the roof.
He broke seven ribs and an arm.
They take him to be buried in a box of fish.
When he smells the sardines, the cat comes back to life.
VIDO VENIR TRES A CABALLO
In a small town, three men on horses appeared. They stopped to fish and one of them finds gold. At that moment, his life changes as he becomes a rich and powerful man. .
A un pequeño pueblo por el que cruza un río llegan tres hombres a caballo. Paran a pescar y uno de ellos encuentra oro. En ese momento, su vida cambia transformándose en un hombre muy rico y poderoso.
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Vido venir tres a caballo haciendo gran polvorina,
cerca ando, cerca del río, al río va echarían.
Ahí había pescadores pescando sus proberías.
Echó ganchos y gancheras por ver lo que le salía.
Le salió un golpe de oro que cien probes ricos hacía.
Anillo lleva en su dedo, camisa lleva en sus hombros.
Anillo lleva en su dedo que hijo del rey parecía.
HE SAW COMING THREE MEN ON HORSEBACK
He saw three men on horseback coming in a cloud of dust.
They arrive at the river and there they will rest.
Fishermen were fishing with their rods.
One of the knights baited his hook
to see what he could catch.
He caught a flash of gold
that would make people rich.
He wears now a ring on his finger
and a shirt on his back.
He wears now a ring on his finger,
for he looks like a son of a king.
TRES MORILLAS DE JAÉN
A man falls in love with three young and beautiful Moorish women who are picking olives in Jaén, a region in Andalusia.
Un hombre se enamora de tres hermosas morillas que tratan de recoger aceitunas en Jaén.
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Tres morillas me enamoran en Jaén: Axa, Fátima y Marién.
Tres morillas tan garridas iban a coger olivas,
y hallaban las cogidas en Jaén:
Axa, Fátima y Marién.
Y hallaban las cogidas, y tornaban desvaídas
y las colores perdidas en Jaén: Axa, Fátima y Marién.
THREE MOORISH GIRLS FROM JAEN
Three young Moorish girls from Jaén – I fell in love:
Axa, Fátima and Marién.
Three little beautiful Moorish girls
were going to pick olives
but they found that the olives were already picked.
Axa, Fátima and Marién.
And they returned tired and faded
and they lost their color in Jaén:
Axa, Fátima and Marién.
LA TARARA
The girl Tarara dances, swishing her hips in a dress with a green dots, frills and jingling bells. The men who pick the olives look at her admiringly.
La niña Tarara baila con un vestido de lunares verdes con volantes y cascabeles y moviendo su cintura. Los jóvenes que recogen las aceitunas la miran encantados.
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La Tarara, sí, la Tarara, no
la Tarara, niña, que la he visto yo.
Lleva mi Tarara un vestido verde lleno de volantes y de cascabeles.
Luce mi Tarara sus colas de seda sobre las retamas y la hierbabuena.
Ay, Tarara loca, mueve la cintura para los
muchachos de las aceitunas.
THE TARARA
La Tarara, yes, La Tarara, no,
La Tarara, girl, I saw her first.
My Tarara is wearing a green dress
full of flounces and bells.
My Tarara is showing her silk tails
over the flowers and the mint.
Oh, crazy Tarara, swish your hips
for the boys of the olives.
ANDA JALEO
A poem about love, that warns a girl that hunters shoot to kill but they don’t always know who they shot. But, perhaps it’s more than that…
Es un poema sobre el amor, donde se advierte a la niña que los cazadores tiran a matar, sin saber realmente a quién han disparado. Pero, es más…
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Yo me asomé a un pino verde por ver si la divisaba.
Y sólo divisé el polvo del coche que la llevaba.
Anda, Jaleo. Ya se acabó el alboroto y vamos al tiroteo.
No salgas, paloma, al campo, mira que soy cazador,
y si te tiro y te mato para mí será el dolor, para mí
será el quebranto.
En la calle de los Muros han matado una paloma.
Yo cortaré con mis manos las flores de su corona.
ANDA, JALEO
I looked from the top of a green pine in case I saw her.
But I only saw the dust of the coach that was carrying her.
Go, Jaleo, Jaleo! Stir up a ruckus!
Now we have finished with this mess,
let’s go shooting.
Don’t go out to the country, pigeon, for I am a hunter,
and if I shoot you and kill you,
for me it will be pain and I will suffer.
Go, Jaleo, Jaleo! Make a commotion!
In the street of the Moors,
a pigeon has been killed.
I will cut with my own hands
the flowers for her crown.
Go, Jaleo, Jaleo! Stir it up!
