Una vieja vale un real
y una muchacha dos cuartos,
y yo, como soy tan pobre
me voy a lo más barato.

Con el vito, vito, vito,
con el vito, vito, va.
No me haga 'usté' cosquillas,
que me pongo 'colorá'.
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Note for line 7: "usté" is short for "usted"

Composition:

Set to music by Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (1879 - 1949), "El vito", stanzas 1, 2 (lines 1-4), from Veinte cantos populares españoles

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The vito", subtitle: "Canción popular. Madrid ", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le vito", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ted Perry , Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor] , Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 94