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Paloma Fantova Dancing Flamenco at Seven Years Old | The Weekly Letra

Here’s a Bulerías de Cádiz followed by a video of Paloma Fantova at seven years old. (I’m pretty sure you’ll be blown away by how well she dances.)

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Dice mi prima Dolores
la del barrio del Balón
van a hacer un monumento
y encima de María Bastón

My cousin Dolores,
from the neighborhood of Balón, says
they are going to put up a statue*
of
María Bastón

This letra starts at about 3:55 in the video below.

Here is a variation that changes the meaning of the song slightly:

A mi me ha dicho mi prima
que en el barrio del Balón
van a poner un monumento
y encima a María Bastón

My cousin Dolores told me,
that in the neighborhood of Balón,
they are going to put up a statue
of María Bastón

(Stay tuned, next week I’ll publish a video of David Palomar singing this version.)

And here and here are a couple more versions.

A note:

The dictionary defines monumento as monument however in Spain the flamenco statues are called monumentos.

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