Jacinta
By Zatelite on January 13, 2024 11:33 pm
About 10-12 years ago I found a poem with a song structure, inside a play written in 1615 by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, a Spanish poet and playwright of the so-called Golden Century (of Spanish literature).
When I read the lyrics I immediately noticed that its structure could work within the canons of modern pop music, it had 2 paragraphs (verses) interspersed with another shorter paragraph that worked well as a chorus.
The melody came to my mind immediately.
I have been singing it for a while (at home) but never decided to record it.... until now.
Lyrics:
No son de cristal, las fuentes.
Ni se ríen, que es mentira.
Ni las flores esmeraldas,
ni testigos de su risa.
Pero es verdad que se hayan en Jacinta,
soles en los ojos y perlas en la risa. (bis)
No son, como dicen muchos,
las rosas alejandrinas.
Al tiempo que se abren, nácar,
coral cuándo se marchitan.
Pero es verdad que se hayan en Jacinta,
soles en los ojos y perlas en la risa. (bis)
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