Spanish song

That was so beautiful, so unexpected in this type of movie - I cried!

Uhm... well, yes, is a mariachi song, a sorrow song, (Cucu-rru-cucu is indeed onomatopoeia of pigeons/doves), but I don´t think that´s what the song says, the actual lyrics are about a guy that was abandoned by his beloved and kept crying and weeping utill his death, soon after this a dove heads every morning to his lonely house singing "cucurruccú" and people say that this dove must be his soul still awaiting for his lover to come back.

Dicen que por las noches
nomas se le iba en puro llorar,
dicen que no comía
nomas se le iba en puro tomar;
juran que el mismo cielo
se estremecía al oír su llanto
Cómo sufrió por ella,
que hasta en su muerte la fué llamando:

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, lloraba,
ay, ay, ay, ay, gemía,
ay, ay, ay, ay, cantaba
de pasión mortal moría.

Que una paloma triste
muy de mañana le va a cantar
a la casita sola
con sus puertitas de par en par;
juran que esa paloma
no es otra cosa mas que su alma,
que todavía la espera
a que regrese la desdichada.

Cucurrucucú, paloma,
cucurrucucú, no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma
qué van a saber de amores.

Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú,
cucurrucucú, paloma no llores.


So, it doesn´t quite fit for a wedding so that was kind of funny. I was watching it dubbed so when they started singing I was like ...'what song are they originally singing?' hehe didn´t realized until the end ir was actually sung in Spanish and was intentionally that specific song.

Yeah, but their singing was not that great. Their voices were OK, and the intonation was OK, but their pronunciation was awful. Particularly when pronouncing "puro" which really threw me off every time I heard it.



I'm so ugly...that's ok 'cause so are you.

thanks so much for the link.... I was surprised to hear chris pratt singing this, because I too recognized it from Habla con Ella. He did a good job with it, but it had the effect of reminding me that I was watching a movie about 100 levels below Habla con Ella... :)

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