Ay! Vienen los Yankees! (Hey! Here Come the Yankees!)

DESCRIPTION: "Spanish: !Ay! vienen los Yankees, !Ay! Los tienen ya!" The Yankees are coming. The singer urges listeners to put aside "formalidad"/formality. The girls are learning English as fast as they can. The Yankees say, "Kiss me!" The girls do
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Hague, Spanish-American Folk-Songs, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage courting
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 644-645, "!Ay! Vienen los Yankees! (Hey! Here Come the Yankees!)" (1 text)
File: CAFS2644

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