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How
about the following song sung to children who are sitting on your lap, being
rocked back and forth, while holding on to their arms :
Riqui ran, riqui
ran,
Los maderos de San Juan,
piden pan, no les
dan.
Les dan un palo detras
del pezqueso. (this is when you let go of one of their arms, and do a gentle
chopping on the back of their neck)
My
parents have done this with all of their grandchildren. The children used
to laugh with glee even though they didn't understand
Spanish.
Has
anyone else heard this rocking song?
Just
wondering...
Irma
My husband's great-grandfather came from Jalisco to El Paso in 1895. My
husband was born in El Paso in 1935 on Overland Street. He last lived in
the Alamitos Projects in the Segundo Barrio until his folks divorced in
1947 and his mother moved them to California.
My husband remembers going with his grandpa "Tata" across to Juarez on the
streetcar to do all those things that some of you remember doing. I told my
husband about the discussions here, and I asked him if he had ever had
atole. "He said, of course", and he started singing a little song about
it:
-----pasen a tomar atole,
todos los que estan pasando,
que el alole esta muy bueno,
!
y pronto se esta 'cabando----
Then he
went into a military like cadence, and some of the rest of the song goes:
-----rana, rana, cola de
rana----
-----el zapato de
Augustin
se los puso el chapulin-----
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
My husband also just brought up a book from our library. I
had forgotten about it. We have most of the books already mentioned.
Does anyone have "A Mexican American Childhood--A Place in El Paso" by Gloria
Lopez-Stafford. It brought back so many memories for my husba! nd.
Anyone who grew up in El Paso would enjoy it.
&nb sp;
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA
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