El vito

Una vieja vale un real
y una muchacha dos cuartos,
[y yo, como]1 soy tan pobre
me voy a lo más barato.
Con el vito, vito, vito,
con el vito, vito, va.
No me jaga 'usté' cosquillas,
que me pongo 'colorá'.

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Joaquín Nin (1879-1949) , "El vito"
by Fernando J. Obradors (1897-1945) , "El vito", from Canciones Clasicas Espanolas

ENG English (Jacqueline Cockburn)

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