Parangaricutirimícuaro

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SSA + Piano 3’00”


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This composition sets an original lyric that centers the Mexican tongue twister and notorious longest-named city in the country: Parangaricutirimícuaro. The original tongue twister plays on conjugations using the city's name.

This music sets the tongue twister in a Latin Jazz inspired style, with a set of lyrics that captures the generational immigrant's yearning for belonging to their ancestral home.

Forces

SSA, Piano

Text

There's a place in Mexico my family came from long ago
Down in the southern state we call, now, Michoacán.
And though I'll never truly know what life was like that long ago,
My tongue gets twisted every time I hear the sound:
¡Parangaricutirimícuaro!

In the forest laid a town.
A volcano burnt it down.
All the people moved away.
We remember when we say:
¡Parangaricutirimícuaro!

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