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Bonita Triana | Viernes con una Letra

Tangos
Traditional

Triana, Triana
Qué bonita está Triana
Cuando le ponen al puente
Banderas republicanas

Triana, Triana
How beautiful Triana is

When they hang the Republican flags
On the bridge

Watch Anabel Castillo sing this on the Puente de Triana itself with Chelo Ruiz and her students dancing and playing palmas in the video below. !Olé!

You can listen to Carmen Linares sing it here at 1:45.

And watch Pastora Galván dance to it here at 6:45.

We've talked about how it is common to have different variations to the words of traditional flamenco letras.

In the video she sings the last line like this:

La banderita gitana

The gypsy (Romani) flag

María Terremoto sing it the same way here at 2 minutes.

As does Melchora Ortega in this recording.

You can check out this post for some info about this letra, particularly the last line and why it was changed. (There is also some discussion about it in the comments of the video above.)

Here is another version of this style, same melody and structure, different words.

And at the end of the video here, you can hear Miguel Poveda sing it (at 5 minutes, 11 seconds).

Finally, you can listen to la Niña de los Peines sing the same style of tangos here.

I took the following picture of the Puente de Triana a few years back while studying in Sevilla.

EDIT: I discovered the video later and added it to enhance this post. Don’t you love that clip of them singing and dancing on the bridge?