Aragon's Shepherd

[postlink]http://cansongs.blogspot.com/2016/11/aragons-shepherd.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ng-NHRhlwendofvid [starttext]

…palomica, palomica,

no levantes tanto el vuelo

porque te saldrás de España

y no sabrás volver luego…

Aragon's greatest jotero died last week, aged 101: José Bielza, nicknamed el Pastor de Andorra, had been herding his sheep well into his nineties and, after his grandson inherited the job, kept visiting them every day. And he kept singing as well, for he was both one of the oldest and best jota singers alive. And, in the end, he took flight just like the little dove in his quintessential composition.[endtext]