Practicing the ascending interval So/Do and the feeling of ending the first three lines on the second (Re).
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- Grade: Third
- Origin: USA - Spanish Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: staves: AABa - song: AB verse/chorus
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ta ta |
| ti ti ta | ta (ta) |
- Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Fa\Re, Re\So, La\Fa
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; vocal slur
- Key Words: North American history, Basque, New Mexico, multi-cultural, lullaby, sacred, Spanish, zapatos (shoes), angelitos (angels), niņo (baby), madres (mother), cielo (heaven), asiste (pray), duermete (slumber); hyphenated: bare-footed
ņ - The Spanish "ñ" is pronounced like the "ny" in the word "canyon."
Collected from the Basque people in New Mexico, cir. 1932 - Sail Away, Locke
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"A La Puerta Del Cielo"
(At the Gate of Heaven)
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A la puerta del cielo venden zapatos,
Para los angelitos que andan
descalzos.
Duermete, niņo, Duermete, niņo,
Duermete, niņo, arru, arru. |
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A los niņos que duerman Dios benedice
A las madres que velan Dios las asiste.
Duermete, niņo, Duermete, niņo,
Duermete, niņo, arru, arru. |
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Translation: |
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At the gate of heaven little shoes they are selling,
For the little bare-footed angels there dwelling.
Slumber my baby, slumber my baby
Slumber my baby, arru, arru. |
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God will bless children who go to sleep
God will help mothers who pray
Slumber my baby, slumber my baby
Slumber my baby, arru, arru. |
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