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Stage song, collected by Blanca Hauser in Temuco

I was teaching a girl to sing,
and she gave me a kiss on each note.

She learned so much, she learned so much,
that she knew everything except singing.

She wanted to know the names of the stars,
and I asked for a kiss with each name.

What a night, what a night
when I invented a thousand names for each star.

But the night passed, dawn arrived,
the stars went away, she was left alone.

And she said to me, and she said to me: