Check out this bulerías pataíta from the living room…

Here’s the coletilla you’ll hear Antonio Malena sing to Manuela Nuñez about one minute into the video below:

From ‘El huerfanito’
By Bienvenido Julián Gutiérrez

Yo no tengo ni padre ni madre
Que sufran mis penas
Huérfano soy

I have neither mother nor father
to feel my pain
I am an orphan

Read the lyrics to the full song here.

I learned about the songwriter, Bienvenido Julián Gutiérrez of Cuba, here. It is a comprehensive article about how this song has been mis attributed to others over and over again.

You can see Manuela dance here in Carlos Saura’s Flamenco when she was a little girl.

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