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Day 178 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Continuing "Mexican Border Songs".
Sandburg writes: "Mexican Folkways, the magazine so ably and humanly edited by Frances Toor in Mexico City, published the lyric lines and lovely air of this song. Luis Morones, violinist and Chicagoan, presented the variant given here, as he heard it and sang it when a youth in Jalisco, Mexico. There, he informs us, it was known as the Venadito Song, venadito meaning little deer or offspring of parent deer. By many it is considered a characteristic specimen and a superb instance of the Latin-American love song."
Day 178 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Continuing "Mexican Border Songs".
Sandburg writes: "Mexican Folkways, the magazine so ably and humanly edited by Frances Toor in Mexico City, published the lyric lines and lovely air of this song. Luis Morones, violinist and Chicagoan, presented the variant given here, as he heard it and sang it when a youth in Jalisco, Mexico. There, he informs us, it was known as the Venadito Song, venadito meaning little deer or offspring of parent deer. By many it is considered a characteristic specimen and a superb instance of the Latin-American love song."
