Guadalajara (song)

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Guadalajara is a Mexican song composed and written by Pepe Guízar in 1937 . It is one of the most popular mariachi songs and pays homage to the Mexican city of the same name, Guadalajara , the capital of the state of Jalisco , which is also called Ciudad de las rosas (City of Roses), which is also expressed in the song ( hueles a limpia rosa temprana ; dt. You smell of the pure early rose) like his popular food Birria and the mariachi music itself. The song also mentions the most important places in the immediate vicinity of the city, such as its suburbs Zapopan and Tlaquepaque and the Laguna de Chapala , Mexico's largest inland body of water .

Versions

The oldest verifiable version was recorded by Machito in 1942 for Decca Records (# 50013).

As early as 1949, the song in the Mexican film Canta y no llores ... in the version by Irma Vela first made it to the film.

In 1962 Demetrio González sang the song in the Mexican film Los cinco halcones , before it gained international fame the following year through the inclusion of Elvis Presley in the final sequence of the film Acapulco .

Other versions of the song exist by Nat King Cole , Plácido Domingo , Rafael Jorge Negrete and Vicente Fernández , among others .

text

The full text, as can be read below, is not sung by all performers, who are often content with just a few stanzas. For example, Pedro Infante and Elvis Presley only sang the first two stanzas, with Presley singing the second stanza twice and replacing the first two lines as follows when repeated: Ay ay ay ay ay ay! Mis hermanos. Ay ay ay ay! Mexicanos. (German: Ay ay ay ay ay ay! My brothers. Ay ay ay ay! Mexicans.).

Spanish German translation

Guadalajara, Guadalajara.
Guadalajara, Guadalajara.

Tienes el alma de provinciana,
Hueles a limpia rosa temprana
A verde jara fresca del río,
Son mil palomas tu caserío,
Guadalajara, Guadalajara,
Hueles a pura tierra mojada.

Ay ay ay ay! Colomitos lejanos.
Ay! Ojitos de agua hermanos.
Ay! Colomitos inolvidables,
Inolvidables como las tardes
En que la lluvia desde la loma
No nos dejaba ir a Zapopan.
.
Ay ay ay ay! Tlaquepaque Pueblito.
Tus olorosos jarritos
Hacen mas fresco el dulce tepache
Junto a la birria con el mariachi
Que en los parianes y alfarerias
Suena con triste melancolia.

Ay ay ay ay! Laguna de Chapala.
Tienes de un cuento la magia,
Cuento de ocasos y de alboradas,
De enamoradas noches lunadas,
Quieta, Chapala, es tu laguna,
Novia romántica como ninguna.

Ay ay ay ay! Zapopitan del alma,
Nunca escuché otras campanas
Como las graves de tu convento,
Donde se alivian mis sufrimientos
Triste Zapopan,
Misal abierto donde son frailes mis sentimientos.

Ay ay ay ay! Guadalajara Hermosa.
Quiero decirte una cosa:
Tú que conservas agua del pozo
Y en tus mujeres el fell rebozo,
Guadalajara, Guadalajara
Tienes el alma más mexicana.

Guadalajara, Guadalajara.


Guadalajara , Guadalajara.
Guadalajara, Guadalajara.

You are the heart of the province .
You smell of the fresh, early rose, of
the green fresh river,
are home to a thousand pigeons.
Guadalajara, Guadalajara,
you smell of fresh, damp earth.

Ay ay ay ay! Colomitos lejanos.
Ay! Familiar water eyes.
Ay! Unforgettable Colomitos.
Unforgettable like the evenings
when the rain from the hill
does not let us go to Zapopan .

Ay ay ay ay! Tlaquepaque village .
Your fragrant jugs
provide the freshest sweet tepache
at Birria and Mariachi ,
which
create a wistful atmosphere in the markets and pottery .

Ay ay ay ay! Chapala lake .
You are a magical story;
Story of setting and rising sun, of
romantic nights in the moonlight.
Calm, Chapala , is your lake,
A romantic friend like no other .

Ay ay ay ay! Warm Zapopanchen ,
I have never more beautiful bells
When your monastery belongs,
Where my sufferings are alleviated.
Wistful Zapopan,
Open Missal , in which monks are my feelings.

Ay ay ay ay! Beautiful Guadalajara.
I will tell you one thing:
Your well water is eternal like Your wives'
devoted Rebozo .
Guadalajara, Guadalajara.
You are the heart of Mexico.

Guadalajara, Guadalajara.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 1, 2015)
  3. ↑ Irma Vila "Guadalajara" (1949) on YouTube
  4. ^ Canta y no llores… in the IMDb database
  5. ↑ Demetrio González: Guadalajara on YouTube
  6. ↑ Los cinco halcones in the IMDb database
  7. ^ Elvis Presley: Guadalajara on YouTube
  8. ↑ Nat King Cole: Guadalajara on You Tube
  9. ^ Plácido Domingo: Guadalajara on YouTube
  10. ^ Rafael Jorge Negrete: Guadalajara on You Tube
  11. ↑ Vicente Fernández: Guadalajara on YouTube
  12. ^ Pedro Infante: Guadalajara on YouTube
  13. ↑ In Mexico the entire country outside the capital Mexico City is traditionally referred to as a province.
  14. ↑ "Colomitos lejanos" is a name for the amusement park "Bosque Los Colomos" in Zapopan (see article Colomitos lejanos at Informador.mx of April 8, 2012)
  15. ↑ cf. Explanation in the Spanish language Wikipedia

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