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Title: The Wedding of the Louse and the Nit
Source(s): La Musica de los Viejitos: Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte Author(s):
Abade Martinez, arranger (Musician); Jack Loeffler (Editor)
A song the conquistadores may have sung as they marched to New Mexico.
The louse and the nit were going to be wed,
but marry they couldn't, because there was no bread.
chorus:
Dee-da-la, dee-da-la, dee-da la
dee-da-la, dee-da-la,dee-da-dam
A cow calls out, from her corral
“Carry on with the wedding, sinc...
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