Lyrics - Spanish
(Mexican folk song, from Baja California)
Yo le dije al zapatero que me hiciera unos zapatos
con el piquito redondo como lo tienen los patos.
Malaya el zapatero como me engañó,
Me hizo los zapatos y el piquito no
English Translation - The Shoemaker
I told a shoemaker to make me a pair of little shoes
with the toes rounded, like those of a duck
Doggone that old shoemaker, how he fooled me.
He made me the little shoes, but not the toe part
See also
- songs about shoemakers
- Mexican folk songs
- major pentascales up and down
- triplets
- sixteenth notes
- songs with the tonic triad in the melody
- songs with chords I IV V
- source: Share the Music Grade 6, MacMillan McGraw-Hill, 1995, p. 404
- Song with chords (PDF)
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1 thought on “El zapatero”
My Mother used to sing me this song as a child > She was from Nuevo Leon ,Mexico