The Pinata Song May 18

Filed under Holidays by Julia Taylor | 5 comments

What does the crowd do while someone is hitting the piñata?

Everyone sings the following song:

Spanish:

Dale, dale, dale. No pierdas el tino. Porque si lo pierdes. Pierdes el camino.Ya le diste una. Ya le diste dos. Ya le diste tres. Y tu tiempo se acabó.

English:

Hit it, hit it, hit it. Don’t loose your aim. Because if you loose it. You loose the way.You hit it once. You hit it twice. You hit it three times. And your time is up.

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5 comments

  1. Nikki Aug 27

    Our teacher taught us this song in 2nd grade and we sang it for our school Chrismas concert! I only remembered the ‘Dale Dale dale’ part and the melody and it’s cool to find it again! Thanks!

  2. lionel Oct 4

    i have to translate the second verse for the chourus teacher in music class

  3. Julia Taylor Oct 5

    Lionel,
    What a fun thing to do for music class.

    The family of a friend of mine sings the second verse and maybe another one. Their versions are really silly and make you laugh, but I didn’t put them up because I didn’t have them memorized.

    Do you have the second verse? I could help you translate it.

    The only thing is that I’m not sure my translations would work for music class because they have the wrong number of syllables and don’t match the song. Maybe you could work that part out.

    Julia

  4. tabitha sewell Oct 17

    we learned the song in spanish class and it is so cool but we have to find out when it is song i know birthday but she said they sing it more than just at birthdays do you know?

  5. Santiago Nov 25

    It’s sung everytime there is a Piñata. On birthdays, pain partys (marriages, school parties) and of course before christmas that is when it was first used.
    On pastorelas, it was round with seven spikes, each one represnting a capital sin, and you destroy that and were prepared for the comming of Jesus

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