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"Abuelita" is about a child taken from its peasant parents and raised by a city family, but it's told as the monologue of the child's natural grandmother, who has come to the city looking for her. As she waits, she rehearses her meager story, little more than the child's parents' names, and although all we learn of Soledad and Juan Luis' fates is "they may be gone, but...", every other word is saturated with her grief, and when the song ends with "I will wait / By the fountain in the square, / You can find me there", even though she knows the child is unaware of her existence, and so will never search, it finally occurs to me to wonder whether the grandmother's real plan is to die amidst a crowd that she can imagine contains the last remnant of what she's lost.
it is sung and written by richard shindell
CD - 'somewhere near paterson'
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