Can Someone Help with the Song, “Down in Mexico It’s Sunny”?
Ray asked:
Hi,
I learned this song in the 5th grade (in my 60’s now) and wanting to find the lyrics… Here is what I remember of the song…
Down in Mexico it’s sunny
Days are warm and sweet as honey
Children in the lazy weather
Laugh and sing and play together.Mothers… don’t remember…
Weaving long and weaving well…All I recall…
Just hoping you might have some info… would love lyrics and chords (guitar)… if possible…
Thanks,
Ray C
If anyone can help with this song, please let us know in the comments below.
Thanks!
Mama Lisa
August 15th, 2009 at 12:03 am
I too remember this song as a 2nd grader. I am almost 59 years of age now..i remember it fondly ..sometimes i would be permitted to sit next to my teacher as she played it on the piano..tears would well up and fall thinking of my Mexican father who i had never met..that is until i was 14. i too play the guitar and would welcome the same answers to the questions that you have posed. Thanks, Francisco Verduzco
August 20th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Linda sent me this email:
I think the song goes something like this…
Down in Mexico
Where the peppers grow
There’s a song they know
chapinaquos,
They will dance and sing
Till the rafters ring
To the song they call
chapinaquos
yda yda yda
Not sure about the spelling of chapinaquos (chapinacus???)
That’s all I can remember and I don’t know how right it is but I tried.
Thanks Linda!
August 29th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Here’s as far as I remember:
Down in Mexico it’s sunny
Days are warm and sweet as honey
Children in the lazy weather, run and laugh and play together.
Busy women nod and chatter weaving long and weaving well.
Home again when day is over.. and that’s all I can remember.. sorry but please if any else remembers..let me know!
September 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
It is from “Sing Out,”the 5th grade music book of a series by Peter Dykema. I remember it too.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:39 am
In the fields the men are planting
Cotton, corn and sugar cane.
Cowboys from the haciendas
Gallop to a gay refrain.
Repeat chorus.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:53 am
I learned this in the fourth grade back in Gilmer Texas in the early 50s. I taught it to my daughters and they delighted in making funny variations. Like “Days are warm and sweet as mustard”. We have had a lot of fun with it ove the years.
The same book that I learned this song from from had Erie Canal and other songs that I have remembered over the years. The book had a red cover.
Thanks for the memories.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:31 am
After seeing above that our music book was by Peter Dykema I was able to buy an old music book by Peter Dykema on Ebay. It was an older book, but maybe it’s in there. If so I will give a good update on “Down in Mexico”
This is fun, I didn’t know that there were other folks who care about old things.
My kids say I live in the past, so be it. I do what I enjoy.