Check out this bulerías pataíta from the living room…
Here’s the coletilla you’ll hear Antonio Malena sing to Manuela Nuñez about one minute into the video below:
From ‘El huerfanito’
By Bienvenido Julián Gutiérrez
Yo no tengo ni padre ni madre
Que sufran mis penas
Huérfano soy
I have neither mother nor father
to feel my pain
I am an orphan
Read the lyrics to the full song here.
I learned about the songwriter, Bienvenido Julián Gutiérrez of Cuba, here. It is a comprehensive article about how this song has been mis attributed to others over and over again.
You can see Manuela dance here in Carlos Saura’s Flamenco when she was a little girl.
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Cover photo of two hands with the backdrop of the sky by Youssef Naddam on Unsplash