Llorona, La

DESCRIPTION: Spanish (Mexican). "La pena y la que no es pena, ay llorona, Todo es pena para mi." The Weeping (Woman), La Llorona, is a ghost who seeks her children, whom she killed or who died in a plague.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cray-AshGrove)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage death children Mexico
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cray-AshGrove, p. 22, "La Llorona" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [61 words]: Wikipedia (checked January 29, 2018) declares that this song "has [its] origins on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the mid of the 19th century besides to another song, 'La Sandunga.' However, the song was first made well-known by Raphael, Spanish singer, in 1968." Obviously the Cray-AshGrove version precedes this; it is only a subset of the popularized version. - RBW
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