La Paloma - Rosita Serrano
One of several versions of LA PALOMA sung by the Chilean artist Rosita Serrano, singer that is one of hundreds of interpreter of this song.
The flute-like voice of Rosita Serrano was very appreciated in Germany in years before the II° world war, she sung currently in German.
This version with slow introduction, contains some references to Austria and may contain some lyrics added in Mexico in years 1864-1867 when the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria became Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico
In fact the song was composed around 1863 by composer Sebastián Yradier from Spain, after hi visited Cuba in 1861, and lyrics are quite...variable!
Images are from paintings of cuban artist Alfredo Cecilio Rodriguez Cedeño,
Ruben Manuel Beltrán Guerra, and Joherms Quiala Brooks; you can see also the cathedral of l Havana, and at 1:00 and 1:25 where lives the main character of the song - a donde vivo yo means -where i am living-.
Cuando sali de La Habana, válgame Dios,
nadie me ha visto salir si no fui yo!
Si_a tu ventana llega una paloma
tratala con cariño que es mi persona,
Ay! Chinita, que si! Ay que dame tu_amor!
Ay! Que vente conmigo, Chinita, a donde vivo yo!
Ay! Chinita, que si! Chinita, que si que dame tu_amor
Ay! Que vente conmigo, Chinita, a donde vivo yo!
No te_enseñao, no te_enseñao el cuadrilatero
vien refregao que los Austriaticos
han regalao al amor mío muy dibujao
y_el papelitico certificao
de que la guerra ha terminao
contres obleas me lo han pegao,
pegao y repegao, pegao!
contres obleas me lo_han pegao
me lo han pegao pegao y repegao,!