Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Day 177 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
The original Spanish song is titled, Mañanitas. The singer wishes for sun, moon, and stars to help him court, or separate from Marianita. Chorus: "Ya viene a maeciendo Ya la lus del dia nos vio, Ys dispierta amiga mia, Mira que ya amanecio." As the Traditional Ballad Index says, "The accentuation of the chorus is left as an exercise for the Spanish-speaking reader." And it is not something I could even attempt. Therefore I only performed the literal English translation, as mentioned below.
Sandburg writes: "Verses and air were published in Mexican Folkways. Luis Moroues, violinist and Chicagoan, made a literal translation which was freely rendered by Louis Untermeyer, poet and New Yorker."
Day 177 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
The original Spanish song is titled, Mañanitas. The singer wishes for sun, moon, and stars to help him court, or separate from Marianita. Chorus: "Ya viene a maeciendo Ya la lus del dia nos vio, Ys dispierta amiga mia, Mira que ya amanecio." As the Traditional Ballad Index says, "The accentuation of the chorus is left as an exercise for the Spanish-speaking reader." And it is not something I could even attempt. Therefore I only performed the literal English translation, as mentioned below.
Sandburg writes: "Verses and air were published in Mexican Folkways. Luis Moroues, violinist and Chicagoan, made a literal translation which was freely rendered by Louis Untermeyer, poet and New Yorker."
