Casamiento de Negros
Monica Salmaso
Black Wedding
A black wedding has taken place
All covered in black
Black grooms and godparents
Black brothers-in-law and in-laws
And the priest who married them
Was also black
When the party started
They laid out the black tablecloth
Then they got to dessert
They served dried figs
And went to bed
Under a black sky
And there are the two heads
Of the black woman with the black man
They woke up cold
Had to start a fire
The little black girl brought charcoal
Charcoal that is also black
Something hurts the black woman
When the town doctor came
He prescribed a mud poultice
But the blackest mud
They gave the black woman
Juice from the maqui plant on the hill
The little black girl has died
What a shame for the poor black man!
They put her in a coffin
A coffin painted black
They didn't even light a candle
Oh! What a dark wake!
And the little black girl has departed
Levitating towards heaven
It was a very cloudy day
Everything was black
Saint Peter opened the door
Who was also black
