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Oh, little Virgin Mother of Carmen,
what great suffering it is,
to be so near water
and not be able to drink...
Ay, 'Maresita' del Carmen,
que pena tan grande es
estar juntito del agua
y no poderla beber...
Malagueñas/Juan Breva
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It is better to die with the blood gushing from you, than to live with it dead in your veins.
Vale mas ser muerto desangrado que vivo con ella podrida.
Federico Garcia Lorca/Poet
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I don't want you to talk to anyone.
Only to your confessor,
your father,
your mother,
your sister,
and me.
No quiero que hables con nadie.
Solo con tu confesor,
con tu padre,
con tu madre,
con tu hermanita,
y yo.
Fandanguillos/Traditional
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'Ay! And I felt a chill when you put your flamenco lips on mine.' I am doing more singing and palmas than dancing these days, and I gathered my long skirt around me, revealing tennis socks, my scruffy cross-trainers. Most definitely the wrong shoes for flamenco. All you can hear on the linoleum is a muffled sound and little squeak of rubber. I am suddenly aware of being once again on the very fine line I have always walked--something between very pathetic and excruciatingly sublime. 'And I don't complain to my star'...I sing...'So lucky I am...I do not complain'...
Ana Castillo from "Peel My Love Like an Onion"
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Between the sacred bread and wine,
I prayed to God that you would
choke on grief,
just as grief is choking me.
Entre la hostia y el caliz
a mi Dios se lo pedi
que t'ahoguen las duquelas
como m'ahoguen a mi.
Solea/Traditional
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Corazon Flamenco, who came to London in 1995-6, brought the great artist Manuela Carrasco, but the first hour of the show was made tedious with kitsch--and what is worse, kitsch performed by good artists. They must have decided that unless they softened us up with touristy stuff, we wouldn't accept Manuela Carrasco...By trying to make it "accessible" to us, they had debased their art and reinforced the impression, already widespread in Britain, that Flamenco is tinsel.
Robin Totton/Author
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That which is Gypsy
is found in the surge of the blood
and in the grooves of the hands.
Lo gitano
va en la masa de la sangre
y en las rayas de las manos.
Solea/Traditional
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