Lyrics - Spanish
(Folk song from Guatemala)
Vamos a la mar, tum, tum.
A comer pescado, tum, tum.
Boca colorada, tum, tum.
Fritito y asado, tum, tum.
Vamos a la mar, tum, tum.
A comer pescado, tum, tum.
Fritito y asado, tum, tum,
En sarten de palo, tum, tum.
English Translation - Let’s go to the sea
Let’s go to the sea, tum, tum.
To eat fish, tum, tum.
Colored (red) mouth, tum, tum.
Fried and roasted, tum, tum.
Let’s go to the sea, tum, tum.
To eat fish, tum, tum.
Fried and roasted, tum, tum.
In a wooden pan, tum, tum.
Recorder Notes: D, G, A, B, D’
See also
- Country: Guatemala
- Subject: summer
- Form: call & response
- Harmony: chords I V
- Melody: tonic triad / low so / D,G / D,G,A,B,D’
- Meter: 2
- Scale: tetratonic
- Tones: drms
- Source: Silver Burdett Music, Book 1, General Learning Corporation, 1974
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