Abandonado, El

DESCRIPTION: Spanish: "The Abandoned." First line: "Me abanonastes, jujer, porque soy muy pobre." The singer's girl is leaving him because he is poor. He admits to character faults. He asks "What am I to do if I am the abandoned one?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Dávalos)
KEYWORDS: love courting poverty drink gambling abandonment Mexico foreignlanguage | Spanish
FOUND IN: US(So) Mexico
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, pp. 295-297, "El Abandonado" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 364-366, "El Abandonado (The Abandoned One") (1 text plus prose translation, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Marcelino Dávalos, _Del bajío y arribeñas: poemas callejeros que al margen de canciones mexicanas, pensó, escribió y publica _(Mexico: Oficina Impresora de Hacienda, Departamento Editorial, 1917) (available on Google Books), page 155, "El Abandonado" (1 text)
J. Frank Dobie, "Versos of the Texas Vaqueros,” _Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society_, Number IV (Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, May, 1925) (available on Google Books), pp. 41-43, "El Abandonado" (1 text, 1 tune)
Higinio Vázquez Santa Ana Canciones, _Cantares y Corridos Mexicanos_ (Mexico, 1925) (available on Google Books), p. 56, "Abandonado" (1 short text)
File: San295

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