La Cucaracha

"La Cucaracha" (Spanish: "The Cockroach") is a traditional Spanish folk corrido that became popular in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.

Structure

The song consists of verse-and-refrain (strophe-antistrophe) pairs, with each half of each pair consisting of four lines featuring an ABCB rhyme scheme.

Refrain

The song's earliest lyrics, from which its name is derived, concern a cockroach that has lost one of its six legs and is struggling to walk with the remaining five. The cockroach's uneven, five-legged gait is imitated by the song's original 5/4 meter, formed by removing one upbeat (corresponding to the missing sixth leg) from the second half of a 6/4 measure:

Many later versions of the song, especially those whose lyrics do not mention the cockroach's missing leg(s), extend the last syllable of each line to fit the more familiar 6/4 meter.

Verses

The song's verses fit a traditional melody separate from that of the refrain but sharing the refrain's meter (either 5/4 or 6/4 as discussed above). In other respects, they are highly variable, usually providing satirical commentary on contemporary political or social problems or disputes.

La Cucaracha (horse)

La Cucaracha (26 March 2001 9 February 2014) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Bred and owned by the Yorkshire businessman Guy Reed she was trained by Barry Hills at Lambourn. She was a specialist sprinter, who won both of her races as a juvenile but injury restricted her career to five races in two years until she emerged as a top class sprinter as a four-year-old. In 2005 she won four of her seven races including the Cammidge Trophy and Ballyogan Stakes before recording her biggest win in the Nunthorpe Stakes. La Cucaracha remained in training at five and recorded another major victory on her final racecourse appearance when she won the King George Stakes.

Background

La Cucaracha is a bay mare with a faint white star and a white coronet markings on her hind feet bred at Copgrove Hall in North Yorkshire by her owner Guy Reed, a former RAF engineer who had made his fortune in the frozen chicken business. She was sired by the sprinter Piccolo and thus was a male-line descendant of the Godolphin Arabian, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who trace their ancestry to the Darley Arabian. Piccolo's biggest win came in 1994 when he was awarded the Nunthorpe Stakes on the disqualification of Blue Siren. He went on to have some success as a sire of sprint horses including Temple of Boom (The Galaxy), Flying Blue (Chairman's Trophy), Tiddliwinks (Duke of York Stakes) and Winker Watson (July Stakes). La Cucaracha's dam Peggy Spencer won three minor races for Reed from sixteen attempts between 1994 and 1996. She was descendant of the broodmare Be Careful, the ancestor of several other major winners including Agnes World and Dubai Destination.

All Mixed Up: Los Remixes

All Mixed Up: Los Remixes (English: All Mixed Up: The Remixes) is the first remix album and third album by Mexican-American cumbia group A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia Kings and the first remix album by Mexican-American musician A.B. Quintanilla. It was released on October 29, 2002 by EMI Latin.

Track listing

Sales and certifications

References

Sho?

Sho? was a short-lived Dubai-based band, whose music could best be classified as a mixture of rock, alternative, punk and electronica. Made up of expatriates, they were active in the Dubai rock music scene for about eighteen months. They released one internet-only single, entitled Crash (April 2010) and one EP, entitled I Don't Wanna Go (August 2010). Their name was a version of the Arabic word, "Sho," which roughly translates into English as, "What." The band officially announced their dissollution in January 2011.

Biography

Sho? was formed in June 2009 by Zara Quiroga and Rizal Khan, who met via an online music forum. Eric Quay Evano (who later joined Borrison Ivy, then Moonshine), Fabrizio 'Fab' Benefazio, Justin Blincoe (who went on to join Colorado-based band Left Foot Green), Karim El Gamal and Branislav 'Bane' Trkulja also served brief stints in the band.

Principle band members

Zara Quiroga

Zara Quiroga was the lead vocalist and only female member of the band. Of Portuguese and Spanish descent, she undertook several years of vocal training prior to performing with Sho?. She had also previously appeared as a vocalist on the 2006 album release Project Creation - Dawn On Pyther by Portuguese multi-instrumentalist Hugo Flores.

Shō (given name)

Shō or Shou is a Japanese given name.

People

  • Sun Yat-sen (孫 逸仙, 1866–1925), a.k.a. "Nakayama Shō" (中山 樵)
  • Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子, 1878-1942), Japanese author. Her birth name was "Shō Hō" (鳳 志よう)
  • Sho Kosugi (ショー・コスギ, born 1948), Japanese martial artist and actor
  • Shō Hayami (速水 奨, born 1958), Japanese voice actor and singer
  • Show Aikawa (哀川 翔, born 1961), Japanese composer and actor
  • Masatoshi Ono (小野 正利, born 1967), Japanese rock/heavy metal singer, nicknamed "Sho"
  • Sho Sakurai (櫻井 翔, born 1982), Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, and newscaster
  • Sho Nakata (中田 翔, born 1989), Japanese baseball player
  • Sho Yano (矢野 祥, born 1991), American child prodigy
  • Characters

  • Shou Amabane, the player character in Burning Rangers
  • Shou Ashikawa, a character in Machine Robo Rescue
  • Shō Fukamachi, the protagonist character of Bio Booster Armor Guyver
  • Shō Kazamatsuri, the main character in Whistle!
  • Syrus Truesdale (Sho Marufuji), a character in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  • Shou Tucker, a character in Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Sho (board game)

    Sho ( Tibetan : ཤོ ) is a traditional race game in Tibet. Its name is simply the Tibetan word for "dice". It is traditionally played for money and by men, with two to four players - three being the most common. With four players, the usual variant is to play as two teams of two, with the partners sitting opposite each other.

    Equipment

    The "board" is formed by a circular line of shells, typically sixty-four in number.

    Each player (or team) has nine identical playing pieces, which are usually old coins. In any case, the playing pieces have to be stackable.
    Two six-sided dice are used. They are placed in a wooden dice cup which is shaken and then slammed down onto a dice pad, typically made of yak leather stuffed with yak wool, which forms the centre of the board, within the circle of shells.

    Basic Gameplay

    The first player to move all nine coins from the beginning of the board to the end is the winner.

    The shells are formed into a clockwise spiral shape around the dice pad. The spaces between the shells are the playing positions which can be occupied by the coins. As the coin stacks move around this dynamic playing board, the shells are rearranged to expand or contract the spiral and the spaces between the shells, which means the game has a very tactile feel to it.

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    La Cucaracha

    by: Lila Downs

    En la misa y en la feria
    Todo el mundo ya lo sabe
    Los que llegan al gobierno
    Porque se puede comprar
    Del partido comunista
    Ya no queda casi nada
    Ahora todos van buscando
    Como hacerse millonadas
    Fue la junta de naciones
    A poner sus opiniones
    Todos no estaban de acuerdo
    Donde y cuando bombardear
    Se sientan los presidentes
    En la silla del gobierno
    Luego mandan a la guerra
    A la gente de su pueblo
    La cucaracha, la cucaracha
    Que ya no puede caminar
    Porque no tiene
    Porque le falta
    La marijuana que fumar
    Huaracha muchacha que vamoa huarachar
    Va una cucaracha que quiere comerciar,
    Toca, loca ábreme la boca,
    Buscame una coca que no quiero trabalear,
    Mica, rica para zapatear,
    Pido a Victor Jara no me vaya a doblegar,
    Chama chama al Ché Guevara,
    Una petición, una cucaracha,
    Por culpa y omision,
    La cucaracha, la cucaracha
    Que ya no puede caminar
    Porque no tiene
    Porque le falta
    La marijuana que fumar
    Todos se pelean la silla
    Que les deja mucha plata
    En el norte Pancho Villa
    Y en el sur viva Zapata!
    Ya murió la cucaracha
    Ya la llevan a enterrar
    Entre cuatro zopilotes




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