Sol, Solecito

February 11, 2009 at 10:26 am 3 comments

Four-year-old Liseth of Bogota, Colombia, loves learning songs and rhymes. In this video, she recites a few rhymes popular in Latin America, similar to “Hey, Diddle, Diddle” in English. The translations of her rhymes are below. Read more about Liseth.

Arroz con Leche (Rice with Milk)*
Rice with milk
I want to get married
To a senorita
From the capital

Who knows how to sew
Who knows how to embroider
Who knows how to open the door
And go outside to play

With this one, yes
With this one, no
With this senorita
I’ll get married
I want to get married
I don’t know with whom
Someone
With brown hair and shoes

I like milk
I like coffee
Now I like everything
About you!

Sol Solecito (Sun, Little Sun)*

Sun, little sun
Warm me a little
Today and tomorrow
All week long

Moon, little moon
Like a sleigh bell
Five little chicks
And one calf

Snail, snail
At one o’clock, the sun comes out
Out comes Pinocchio playing a drum
With a spoon and a fork

*In Spanish, these verses rhyme and, like “Hey Diddle, Diddle”, they make little sense. The rhyming is lost in the translation.

Entry filed under: Around the World with CFCA, South America. Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

What is the best method to make my contribution? Solidarity walk begins the new year

3 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Father Ambrose  |  February 11, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    I watch all the YouTubes and find them very interesting and informative. Thank you.

    Reply
  • 2. joe myers  |  February 11, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    nice video clip of the little girl doing the “leche” rhyme.

    Reply
  • 3. Bea Gabino  |  February 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    I watched the video of Liseth from Bogota and really enjoyed it. I will be visiting my sponsored child in Mexico next month and I was trying to learn little rhymes to share with her….I am learning Arroz con Leche so I can share with her and if she already knows it we can do it together. I have also gone to Bolivia on a MAT before and it was fantastic to meet my sponsored child and seminarian. Every sponsor should spoil themselves and visit on a Mat!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed


Follow us on Twitter

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,952 other followers

Contact CFCA

Christian Foundation
for Children and Aging
1 Elmwood Avenue
Kansas City, Kansas 66103

1.800.875.6564 | 913.384.6500
mail@cfcausa.org www.hopeforafamily.org