Niños

Children

© Copyright Oscar Grillo 2007

- ¿Y por qué no duermen?
- Porque no están nunca cansados.
- ¿Y por qué no?
- Porque son tontos.
- ¿Y los tontos no se cansan?
- ¿Cómo van a cansarse los tontos?

"Niños en la carretera"- Franz Kafka, 1904
"Children on a country road"- Franz Kafka, 1904

Música:
The Lion
Send You Children To Orphan Home
DECCA 17284B

"...Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that it is a saga of a rollicking Trinidad wench".
More information here from Time on Monday, Aug. 29, 1938 !!!