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1
En el café de Chinitas
dijo Paquiro a su hermano:
»Soy más valiente que tú,
más torero y más gitano«.
2
En el café de Chinitas
dijo Paquiro a Frascuelo:
»Soy más valiente que tú,
más gitano y más torero«.
3
Sacó Paquiro el reló
y dijo de esta manera:
»Este toro ha de morir
antes de las cuatro y media1 «.
4
Al dar las cuatro en la calle
se salieron del café
y era Paquiro en la calle
un torero de cartel.2
F. Obradors sets stanzas 1, 3-4
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Obradors adds: "¡Esto dijo y lo cumplió!"
2 Obradors adds: "¡Esto pasó en el Café!"
Authorship
- from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "El café de Chinitas" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "El café de Chinitas" [ voice and guitar ], from Canciones españoles antiguas recopiladas y armonizadas por FGL, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Ludwig Leitner (b. 1943), "El café de Chinitas", published 1989, first performed 1989 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinco canciones populares antiguas = Fünf alte spanische Volkslieder, no. 4, Vienna, Doblinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joaquin Nin Culmell (1908 - 2004), "En el café de Chinitas", 1971 [ voice and piano ], from Cinco canciones tradicionales espanolas, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernando J. Obradors (1897 - 1945), "En el café de Chinitas", alternate title: "Canción del café de Chinitas", 1941, stanzas 1,3-4 [ voice and piano ], from Canciones clásicas españolas, vol. 4, no. 4, Unión Musical Española [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-29
Line count: 20
Word count: 86
1 In the Chinitas café Paquiro said to his brother: “I am braver than you, a better bullfighter, and a better gypsy.” 2 In the Chinitas café Paquiro said to Frascuelo: “I am braver than you, a better gypsy and a better bullfighter.” 3 Paquiro took out his watch And said in this manner: “This bull will die Before 4:30.” 4 At 4 o’clock on the street People left the café And Paquiro was in the street, Just a bullfighter on a poster.
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Translations of title(s):
"En el café de Chinitas" = "In the Chinitas Café "
"El café de Chinitas" = "Chinitas Café"
Translator's note on the last line: This is the greatest insult to a bullfighter – you’re all flash and no substance.
Authorship
- Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2019 by Jennifer Gliere, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Spanish (Español) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "El café de Chinitas"
This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 20
Word count: 83