"Flamenco surfaced in Andalucia in the middle of the 19th century." "The mixture of people, religions and cultures created a new type of music." "Greek rattles, Mozarab jarchas..." "Gregorian chants, Castillian romances and Jewish laments... the sound of blackness and of the gypsy settlers from distant India... all blended to create the musical structure we now call Flamenco." "And it is expressed through song, dance and the guitar." "I've got troubles" "yes, I've got troubles because you're leaving my side when I'm so in love with you" "if you're name is Dolores why don't you jump in the river and gather camarons in your skirts" "they'll come to grief what are they trying to do they're just low lifes swanking around they don't know what's going on" "Martín Pirulero his cape dragging along the ground ay, he's been hit" "there's a door to my soul that needs no key" "I always leave it open no one can close it on me" "you threw a lemon at me and hit me on the forehead that's what love does to you makes you cheeky ay, I love you so much" "that I just can't punish you mama, the kitten has scratched me put it outside put it outside for a while" "what a dark street what darkness what a pretty girl if her mother would give her to me there comes Pepe with the coal but I have something else to sell" "you always said to me you always said" "I shouldn't love you so much you didn't deserve it" "I come and see you" "I come and see you white petticoat and skirt" "for you, for you I'd die for you, for you I'd die if you would only come to my side" "don't scorn me, gitana" "I'm a saint, a good man, gitana you only want my money, gitana" "I'm not going with you anymore, gitana" "when the moon comes out I am going to see you" "because it lights up my path gitana, for me to love you" "sorrow, sorrow, my god" "I'm so sad" "ay, Jesus of the miracles she's gone and left me now, I'm going back to my mother, gitana wherever she wants to take me you only want my money, gitana ay, you only want my money, gitana" "four Franciscans, four from El Carmen" "four from El Carmen four from La Victoria" "there they go, twelve friars that's why you should keep an eye on the lemons in your orchard" "I'll marry you, Indiana" "if your father finds out and tells your mother my gorgeous Cuban girl" "I have a house in Havana waiting just for you ay, with an ivory roof and a raised floor for you, my white dove I carry the fleur-de-lys" "in the morning after drinking my coffee" "I like to stroll through Havana with a lighted cigarette" "I like to take it easy sitting on a seat or an armchair" "and I buy myself a paper one of the dailies and I look like a millionaire a rich man of the town" "traca tra traca tra ay, ole arsa y toma tran trabili trabili tran tran tran trabili trabili trero arsa y toma, arsa y toma trabili tran" "ay, lemon seller, give me some lemonade" "I'm a gypsy, made of the salt of Cádiz" "what made you wash your face and brush your hair when you knew how I was feeling" "on the way to Cartuja before reaching the pine groves" "I turned around and looked back and called out to my mother" "ay, what madness" "the things I was doing for you" "I just wanted to show you" "what I was feeling" "I'm not who I was nor who I was nor who I should be" "I'm like a piece of furniture sad and ignored" "I couldn't it was a stormy night" "I wanted to sleep but I couldn't" "I dreamt you were with someone else and I even bit my pillow and almost lost my mind" "I fell asleep thinking about you you're the portrait of heaven itself" "I woke up and saw you were not with me and began to cry my heart out what is to become of me" "my tears were falling into a glass but now my tears fall to the floor because I've cried so much the glass is full" "it's what I love most the fandango is my joy it's the song I love most it takes my troubles away with a fandango from Alosno and the break of day" "why don't you come to my side" "to my side you know that I love you but you don't seem to care about me" "people are talking about people are talking about how attentive you are" "how attentive you are to la "sancha"" "and lies become truth" "I grieve so for my mother" "how am I going to have another mother like the one I had" "I wanted to go on, but he cut me off." "I'll be sentenced to death if they see me talking to you" "my killers can oh mother of my heart my killers can get their knives ready" "I'll be sentenced to death if they see me talking to you" "ay, I'm tough as stone" "I've been through so much torment and pain so I wouldn't feel" "oh my lover so I wouldn't feel the wounds in my heart" "ay, I needed to be so tough" "ay, how you make me feel full moon in the sky" "wherever you go may the heavens guide you may God give you good fortune you make me cry" "full moon in the sky" "I'd sell the shirt off my back ay, who wants to buy it" "it's going cheap" "for your freedom" "I'd sell the shirt off my back who wants to buy it" "as I loved her so much" "I took her out for a ride" "and I held a hat in front of her to keep the wind off her face" "don't torment me any more because I feel just like that boat buffeted by the waves" "I love you you want me to love you" "but your husband should love you it's his duty after all" "this old lady with this old lady she gives me courage because she grumbles" "the black ones smell of cheese the young ladies smell of olives and the pretty gypsy girls smell of ripe pineapple that's why, that's why, that's why" "I don't love you any more now it's more than that now, yes I love you" "because I don't love you you are furious with me now" "because you are not my taste hey Manuela, don't scratch me because I don't love you you are furious with me now and now, alright" "I do love you, I love you I'm going to love you" "I'm happy as can be" "when you're by my side if I were to die right now" "I don't think I'd feel a thing" "you were my true love" "and you've gone and left" "there was a terrible pain in my soul" "there was a terrible pain in my soul when my mother died when dawn was breaking my true love" "up high on that mountain I cut a reed I cut a flower working on the land" "I want a lad to take the oxen out to plough but a lad who can play the tambourine too who can play the tambourine too" "everyone called her the saint" "the girl called Angustina everyone called her the saint" "she goes to the entrance of the mines" "and prays for hope" "but all hope is lost" "I've been left something my dad has left me an old oil lamp how wonderful" "I dream about him night and day and for twenty reales" "I'd sell my lamp which belonged to my father" "I dreamt that Sevilla was made of chocolate and the Giralda of candied pine nuts and the Torre del Oro of toffee and the Guadalquivir flowed with anisette ay, a hunk of bread" "what is that shining among the olive groves" "it's my girl's eyes which are like my mother's" "there's a brightness in your eyes which I gave you you took me from the darkness and at my side I saw you suffer that's why you'll always be mine and I'll be yours" "you'll always be what I never expected of anyone" "I'll always be at your side whether the sun comes out or not" "if you want to come, then come and if not, tell me to go and don't show me the door like a pitcher of water I'm leaving you, leaving you" "once when Juana asked you to comb her hair" "you threw the combs out of the window and the day you wanted to comb her hair she said no" "you are only worth as much as the smallest stone on the pavement of my street" "on the pavement of my street ay, mother" "the paths were made of water, wind and cold an old man walked along very sad and troubled glory to the blessed mother Victoria glory to the new born, glory" "they arrived at an inn and asked for shelter but the wretched innkeeper turned them away, glory" "I have no room and it's two in the morning no room for a pregnant woman, glory" "if you have money the whole house is yours but if you have none there's no room, glory" "and from there they went and found a crib and between the ox and the mule the divine word was born, glory to the blessed mother Victoria glory to the newborn, glory" " What do you want to sing?" " Whatever you want." " Why don't we do "The Butterfly"?" " Alright." "once upon a time" "a white butterfly" "who was the queen of all the butterflies of the dawn" "alighted in the gardens on the most beautiful flowers" "and whispered stories to the carnations and the violets" "happy little butterfly" "so pleased with herself, so flirty she looked like almond blossom fluttering in the cool breeze" "but the collector came along" "one spring morning and from a jasmine in bloom he took our queen prisoner he fastened her with pins" "on a piece of black card and took her to his museum of short-lived, dead beauties the butterflies of the dawn wept as they flew around the glade" "the white butterfly settled in a carnation but the carnation wasn't pleased white butterfly and red carnations red like the lips of someone I know" "Your hands should move like doves." "Now I'll dance a bit to the singing." "tiriti tran tran tran tarata tran tran tran tiriti tran tran tran tran" "I'm feeling so confused oh, love of my life" "I'm feeling so confused and I go over the walls which lead to your doors" "the poppy in the field said to the wheat" "I'm not marrying anybody I don't know about you" "the poppy in the field said to the wheat" "when I look at her she cries" "I don't know what's the matter with your mother" "because when I look at her she cries" "I don't know what I should do when I look at this lady" "when she walks along cinnamon and roses fall to the ground" "the bride is arriving shining like the stars an early rose a white handkerchief the gypsy girls are dancing to the tango beat" "at La Linea Fair" "I bought a dapple-grey pony for my girl to ride" "the party is over now dawn is breaking and the lark is singing" "I ripped my shirt so I took it off because it's torn" "the gypsy woman of the century gets drunk on the aromas of the sweets, sweets, sweets the child's sweets" "I don't know how" "ay, the dimples ay, the dimples on your face how can I resist them" "in the roots of an olive tree I hid my soul" "and the old gypsy woman found it there weary of so much walking around these lands" "I am tired of calling at the shore of your door because you never answer" "my life is my own and your life is yours" "why don't we put them together and make them one" "once I looked into the well of love" "I love you green, yes, yes I love you green, ay, ay, ay" "I love you green" "green, I love you green green wind, green branch the boat on the sea the horse on the mountain" "with the share on her waist she leans on the balustrade and dreams green eyes, black hair her body of cold silver" "my friend, I want to swap your horse for my house my saddle for your mirror my knife for your blanket" "my friend, I am bleeding I've come from the Puertos de Cabra and if I were a boy and was striking this deal" "my friend, I want to die decently in my bed and if possible with sheets from Holland" "my friend, tell me where she is where is that bitter girl" "I waited for her so many times I waited for her so many times" "green, I love you green green wind, green branch the boat on the sea the horse on the mountain"