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Old April 04, 2017, 03:05 PM
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The song seems to be "Chivirito negro pecho colorado".
The "chirivito" seems to be some kind of bird.
In traditional popular music there is often reference to birds, to whom one sings a story or tells about one's disgrace. Although there is no real connection between the verses, here, the bird seems to be used as to learn a moral: the chirivito was hurt because he fell in love.


@Poli: This is slightly off-topic, but since you know a lot about popular uses of language, you might like to know this: in Mexico, people imitate how toddlers speak by changing some "s" sounds to "ch"; so, when talking like or to a child, people may say "becho" instead of "beso".
In a familiar environment, someone may say: "chenche, no canche" ["siénte(se), no (se) canse"], as they offer you a seat. The full version of the well pronounced expression is never used though (we only say "siéntese" or "siéntate"). Also, this false toddler expression doesn't distinguish between "tú" or "usted", so it's used for everyone.
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