Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Duerme negrito is a lullaby that attempts to critique and expose the exploitation, dehumanization and cruelties committed during the time of slavery in different parts of Latin America, particularly to those who worked at coffee plantations. The song attempts to narrate the difficulties that a mothe...
Duerme Negrito
Duerme duerme negrito
Que tu mama 'ta en el campo negrito
Duerme duerme mobila
Que tu mama 'ta en el campo mobila
Te va trae' codornices para ti
Te va trae' rica fruta para ti
Te va trae' carne de cerdo para ti
Te va trae' muchas cosas para ti
Y si negro no se duerme
Viene el diablo blanco y zas! ...
Le come la patita chicapumba
Chicapumba apumba chicapum ...
Duerme duerme negrito
Que tu mama 'ta en el campo negrito
Trabajando
Trabajando duramente
Trabajando si
Trabajando y va de luto
Trabajando si
Trabajando y no le pagan
Trabajando si
Trabajando y va tosiendo
Trabajando si
Pa'l negrito chiquitito
Pa'l negrito si
Trabajando si
Trabajando si
Duerme duerme negrito
Que tu mama 'ta en el campo negrito
Negrito ... Negrito ...
In English
Sleep little black one
Sleep, sleep little black one
Your mama’s in the fields, little one
Sleep, sleep little one
She’s going to bring quail for you
She’s going to bring fresh fruit for you
She’s going to bring pork for you
She’s going to bring many things for you
And if the little black one doesn’t go to sleep
The white devil will come and – sap!
– he’ll eat your little foot!
Sleep, sleep little black one
Your mama’s in the fields, little one
She’s working hard, working
Yes, and they don’t pay her
Working, and she’s coughing;
Working, yes
For her sweet little black one
Drume negrita [Live] was written by Atahualpa Yupanqui.