La Llorona

Background
"La Llorona" is an original MAIKA song. It is based off of an old Latino legend of Malinche, an Aztec woman who bore twin boys to Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés. He refuses to return to Spain despite the King and Queen's orders, and in fear of him turning against them, send a beautiful woman to seduce him into returning to Spain. He agrees, planning to take his sons with him and leave La Malinche behind.

La Malinche hears this, and falls into despair realizing that she had a role in helping Cortés massacre her people. Trying to save Mexico, she prays to her gods to find an answer. They tell her that if she lets Cortés take her sons, one of them will come back and destroy her people.

The night before Cortés leaves for Spain, she escapes with her sons. But his men notice her absence and set out to chase her. They reach a lake that is found by Mexico City, and the soldiers surround Malinche. But before they capture her, she takes out a dagger and stabs her sons in the chest, letting their bodies fall into the river. However, she is quickly overcome by grief; murdering her children being the last thing she ever wanted to do. Just as she dropped their bodies into the water, she cries "Oh, hijos mios." (Oh, my children.)

La Malinche dies about nine years later, and up to the time of her death she is seen and heard near the lake, crying for her children. This is where the name, "La Llorona" (The Crying Woman), is derived from, and how the legend came to be.

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The song is featured in the album, Assorted Vocanuts.

Lyrics

 * Lyrics of La Llorona

She yearns To make things right

Yet none Of them arrived They're gone They're gone She yells So on So on Church bells

Yet no one Will forget

Yet none Of them arrived They're gone They're gone She knows Yet from Their graves They rose

They're gone They're gone She cries Her eyes cast to The sky She never said goodbye And now's her turn To die