Marcos Levy --Yo tenia una luz -- folk song with original verses

Here's a tune I grew up with, visiting Puerto Rico.

A poetic translation is:

I had a light that lit me from within.
Along came a breeze and blew it right out

While living in San Jose,
I fell in love with a woman.
In all the land,
There was no one like her
But she spied me with her sister and she left.


I had a light that lit me from within.
Along came a breeze and blew it right out.

I then met a young woman
She told me her name was Juanita.
I was so in love with her,
I asked her for her hand,
But she told me I did not fit into her life.

I had a light that lit me from within.
Along came a breeze and blew it right out.

The chorus brings back many memories for me of Christmases in Puerto Rico

Category:

Music

Tags:

• puerto
• rico
• Marcos
• Levy
• Yo
• tenia
• una
• luz
• spanish
• original
• traditional
• guitar
• song

[unsureowl]

beautiful well done!



[learnproject]

@unsureowl Thank You!

[arojas2524]

me gusta mas con los pleneros

pero me gusta la cancion.

[learnproject]

Gracias, tengo que aprenderla en la propia manera tambien. No tengo mucho opportunidad a practicar mi espanol donde yo vivo. Otra vez, gracias

[ItripledogdareU]

Wepa! well done :0)

[learnproject]

@ramramos

Thank you for your thoughts.  I haven't played this song for a while and now I will remember to play it more often. Thanks, Again!

[ramramos]

@learnproject

As a young boy growing up in chicago my father sang the original song all the time.

I was searching for the original song and came acoss your, i have to tell you that your song is better then the original one. Thanks for the beautiful gift of music.

[jibaro42]

La canción orginal es de Alfonso Vélez, pero te felicito por tu versión. Me gusta como suena esa guitarra.

[cumanagoto]

I heard this song for the first time as a child when living in Venezuela. Odilio Gonzalez was the interpreter. You have done a great job creating your own version. Bravo!

[glennfrancis21]

never heard this before, I love it!

good playing and great voice.