Currrucucucu Paloma translated:

They say at night he purely cried
They say he wouldnt eat and only did partake of drinks
They say heaven itself would rumble at his crying...
How he suffered for her....
And even in death he kept calling her....

Ay ay ay ay ay..he sang
Ay ay ay ay ay.. he moaned..
Ay ay ay ay ay..he sang...
He could die for his love..

They said a sad pidgeon
early in the morning would sing...
To the lonely house
with its doors open,
They swear that the pidgeon is nothing more than her soul,
still waiting for her return,

Cucurrucucu Paloma, Cucurrucucu, dont cry....
Rocks dont know...what would they know about love?
Cucurrucucu Paloma (pidgeon) please dont cry again...

"The singer who sings siguiriyas leaves in each line a piece of his soul; and, if not, he is deceiving the listener, perhaps even himself. If there is one style to which the singer must give every bit of himself,  it is the siguiriya." Angel Alvarez Caballero



"Every time I hear a Gypsy singing a deep song with all his body and all his soul, I feel he is asking me a question to which I have no answer." Mikis Theodorakis

On the street of The Winds I devoured you down to your beauty mark.
Tangos sung by La Caita in the film "Vengo"

Though I have a well in my house,
I am dying of thirst
because the rope is not
long enough.

Tengo yo un pozo en mi casa,
y yo me muero de sed
porque la soga no alcanza.


Tientos/Traditional

Many serious Romani ethnologists consider Konrad Bercovici a romanticizer of the Gypsy experience  - and this is true to a certain extent - however there is always room in the world for books such as this - especially when written so well. Below, an excerpt:



The essential difference between Gypsy and so called civilized man is that the aim of the civilized traveller is to get to a definite point in the speediest manner - to shoot through thousands of miles like a bullet from a cannon - express trains, airplanes - while the Gypsy, being more poetical, is charmed by the traveling itself.

The Gypsy travels for the sake of travel.

Also, he is the real epicurean - The Gypsy thinks regretfully of the point of satiation, consuming his food slowly with relish and the joy of eating.

To the civilized man everything becomes an aim - a definite goal to which he runs.
The speed we go through life with reveals our impatience to reach the end.
The Gypsy thinks of 'the end' as a sad and inevitable moment.

Meantime, he lives, he loves and he sings and sings...

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This film won the UCCA Prize 2009 at the Bellaria Film Festival in Italy. Laura's ability ability to describe as the jury out described a soft, at times ironic, but always direct way her own story, that of her family, and the the difficult conditions of Gypsies in Italy. The UCCA Prize is awarded to the top two documentaries at the festival, and the prize-winning films receive the opportunity to be screened in at least 20 Italian cities.

Halilovic wants viewers to become acquainted with her family, friends, and all who have stood by her over the years. She even gives voice to those who do not approve of her family's presence in the neighborhood. Using her family's story, Halilovic provides a view of a culture still unknown to many.

Laura Halilovic wanted to become a director since the age of nine, and as a child she told her parents that she wanted to become Woody Allen.

That which is Gypsy
is found in the surge of the blood
and in the grooves of the hands.

Lo gitano
va en la masa de la sangre
y en las rayas de las manos.

Solea/Traditional