Diga usted, señor platero,
Cuanta plata es menester
para engarzar un besito
de boca de una mujer.

Señor platero, he pensado
que usted sabe engarzar;
por eso le vengo a dar
una obrita de cuidado.

A mí un besito me ha dado
mi novia1 con gran salero.
Engarzarlo en plata quiero,
porque soy su fiel amante.

¿Qué plata será bastante?
diga usted, señor platero.

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¹ or "novio" if a woman is singing the song.

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (1879 - 1949), "Paño murciano" [voice and piano], from Veinte cantos populares españoles [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Karenn Chutjian Presti) , "Murcian cloth", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Danielle Woerner

This text was added to the website: 2010-05-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 65