Los Bilbilicos (The Nightingales)

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Judeo-spanish Lyrics

Los bilbilicos cantan
Nel arbol de la flor
Debaxo de ascentan
Los ke sufren del este amor

Muchachica, muchachica
No te apares a la mar
Ke la mar esta fortunata
No te vaigas arastar

Me ke araste y ke me lleve
Ke me echi a los tomouth
Ke me coma el pexe preto
Y (salvame/salgame?) yo de este amor.

Translation


clip here from Ladino Ballads-Romances performed by Yehoram Gaon. sheet music here In many Sephardic communities the piyyut "Tsur Mishlo Achalnu" is sung at the first Sabbath meal in the tune of this Sephardic love song. This particular version was sung by my grandmother...she came from the coa

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Added December 11th, 1999