"La Patita" by Cri-Cri, English translation of original Spanish version
"The Little Lady Duck" / "Mama Webster"
Style: Children's song about a money-strapped mother duck
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube. Also, this website has mp3 files. "La Patita" is on the second column.
Translation:
La patita
De canasta y con reboso de bolita
Va al mercado
A comprar todas las cosas del mandado.
Mama Webster
With basket and polka dotted shawl
Goes to market
To buy all the things for groceries.
Se va meneando al caminar
Como los barcos en alta mar.
She waddles as she walks
Like the boats in high tide.
La patita
Va corriendo y buscando en su bolsita
Centavitos para darles de comer a sus patitos
Porque ya sabe que al retornar
Toditos ellos preguntaran:
Mama Webster
Goes running and searching in her little bag
For little cents to feed her ducklings
Because she knows that on returning
Every one of them will ask:
¿Qué me trajiste mamá cua cua?
¿Qué me trajiste cuara cua cua?
Continue translation and read notes at songlations.com
Style: Children's song about a money-strapped mother duck
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube. Also, this website has mp3 files. "La Patita" is on the second column.
Translation:
La patita
De canasta y con reboso de bolita
Va al mercado
A comprar todas las cosas del mandado.
Mama Webster
With basket and polka dotted shawl
Goes to market
To buy all the things for groceries.
Se va meneando al caminar
Como los barcos en alta mar.
She waddles as she walks
Like the boats in high tide.
La patita
Va corriendo y buscando en su bolsita
Centavitos para darles de comer a sus patitos
Porque ya sabe que al retornar
Toditos ellos preguntaran:
Mama Webster
Goes running and searching in her little bag
For little cents to feed her ducklings
Because she knows that on returning
Every one of them will ask:
¿Qué me trajiste mamá cua cua?
¿Qué me trajiste cuara cua cua?
Continue translation and read notes at songlations.com