Please note:
- All these street organ arrangements are home-made. Contact me if you want a custom arrangement for your own street organ, musical box, barrel piano, or whatever.
- The MP3s below use Virtual Studio Technology: this is NOT the real sound (my organ has multiple registers and percussion, and sounds ... real), and someone needs to sing!
- Lyrics or translations can be displayed live on a screen, karaoke-style.
Title | Artist | La | Year | Comments |
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Pablow the blowfish | Miley Cyrus | en | 2015 | Almost as good as Fluffy. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Shibboleth | Reginald Pikedevant | 2014 | Brief ditty on the onomastic pitfalls of the United Kingdom. | |
Déu, vull ser artista, al meu cor / God, I want to be an artist, in my heart | The Singing Organ-Grinder | ca en | 2014 | Hi ha més estrofes, cada menys políticament correcta / Each verse increasingly unlikely to get past today's censors. |
The Eddic Poem of the Vikinges Who Do Go Berserk | Le Vostre GC | en | 2014 | Nyne vikinges and a mightye troll / Joyne eight moore for sea patrol. |
Villancico linuxero | Pánico en el núcleo (Panic in the kernel) | es | 2011 | Linux carol disparages Windows and Mac, makes Spanish nerds laugh: Que le den al Guindos, que le den al Mac, / que yo uso Linux y me va genial. |
Gacela del amor imprevisto | Lorca / Sans Rancune / The Singing Organ-Grinder | es | 1998 | Lorca as universal revolutionary instead of reinventor of the Castilian romance: La sangre de tus venas en mi boca, / tu boca ya sin luz para mi muerte (reggaecito cojito con tango) |
My pervert doppelganger | Momus | en | 1997 | Best song to mention Smithfield market, 'where refrigerated lorries unload dead cows.' |
Copla del viudo del submarino | Juan Antonio Canta | es | 1996 | From the last Andalusian avant-gardist: En el fondo del mar tengo yo / Una novia en silencio / Un poquito de pescaito frito / Me trae su recuerdo Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Te quiero | Juan Antonio Canta | es | 1996 | Macabre ballad of frustrated love from the great farewell album of the last Andalusian surrealist, Las increíbles aventuras de Juan Antonio Canta, set to a marionettish accompaniment. |
Carloons in the Anguish languish | Doc Clay | en | 1992 | Thrill your friends with a homophonic carol service featuring classics like 'Oh, ladle down off Bath lay him' and 'Shingled hells'. |
Fungus the Bogeyman | The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1985 | Inspired in some fashion by Raymond Briggs' graphic novel. |
Super Mario Sheep | 1985 | Mashup created for an agricultural theatre event. | ||
Theme from Terminator | 1984 | Next project: Arnie-style organ. | ||
Estoy tocando fondo | Viudas e hijas de Roque Enroll | es | 1984 | Where the fondo may be the International Monetary Fund. |
Himno de la Comunidad de Madrid | Agustín García Calvo | es | 1983 | Muy bueno por irónico: Sólo por ser algo, ¡soy madrileño! (Cfr. Cánovas: Son españoles... los que no pueden ser otra cosa) Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Fluffy | Gloria Balsam / Richard van Dorn / Davey Sayles | en | 1980 | Her doggie gets lost in the woods, and Gloria is very sad: 'Here, Fluffy, where are you?' Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Song for the British Working Class | Cornelius Cardew | en | 1979 | Albanian scansion for one of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)'s more curious attempts to connect with normal people: Persisting in the face of every difficulty / In 1979 was formed our new party, a glorious victory. / Rallying to this flag is the only way, workers / To usher in, a bright new day of / Socialism in Britain. |
A Martian sends a postcard home | Craig Raine | en | 1979 | Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings / and some are treasured for their markings - / they cause the eyes to melt / or the body to shriek without pain. |
Hit me with your rhythm stick | Ian Dury | en | 1978 | Tropical stylee. |
You're the reason our kids are ugly | Lorretta Lynn, Conway Twitty | en | 1978 | |
Synonyms / Shumba | Thomas Mapfumo / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1975 | Flagrant misuse of chiShona material by Zimbabwe's most interesting singer. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Ik ben Gerrit | Gerrit Dekzeil | nl | 1973 | My name is Gerrit and I steal like the ravens, / I am a rogue in the eyes of the goody-goodies. / But what can you do if you have nothing / In this world where everything's a con. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Peppi en Kokki intro | nl | 1972 | Dutch 70s absurdist children's show. Video, possibly from another time or person: | |
King of Rome | Dave Sudbury / June Tabor / The Unthanks | en | 1970s? | A pigeon race from Rome to England in 1913: On the day o' the big race a storm blew in / A thousand birds were swept away and never seen again. |
Postman Pat / Pat el Cartero / Postmann Pat | Bryan Daly / Ken Barrie | no en | 1970 | In English or Norwegian. Virtual excerpt: Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Theme from the Magic Roundabout | Alain Legrand | 1970 | The bits featuring a barrel organ were more popular in Germany. Video, possibly from another time or person: | |
Las tetas de María Guevara | Perucho Aguirre / Quinto Criollo | es | 1970 | Absurd song about an absurd pair of Caribbean peaks: navigational and erotic aids. |
Run, Samson, run | The Click Kids | en | 1970 | Run, Samson, run, Delilah's gonna get you, / Run, Samson, run she's gonna cut your hair, / Run, Samson, run, you're gonna lose your power / You're gonna go to prison and lie down dead. |
I don't eat animals and they don't eat me | Melanie Safka | en | 1970 | Things were pretty bad in the 70s: I don't eat white flour, white sugar makes you rot, / Oh, white could be beautiful but mostly it's not. |
Plegaria para el senador Robert F Kennedy después de su asesinato | Hermanitos García | es | 1970 | |
Junk | Paul McCartney | en | 1970 | |
Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) | Benny Hill | en | 1970 | |
I'm happy | Ivor Cutler | en | 1967 | And I'll punch the man who says I'm not. A boxing classic to be. |
Darling, will you marry me twice? | Ivor Cutler | en | 1967 | Cartesian doctrine in micro format. |
I'm going in a field | Ivor Cutler | en | 1967 | Green grass, yellow flowers / My lover’s eyes are blue. |
Theme from Star Trek | Alexander Courage / Gene Roddenberry | 1966 | With scam-meister Gene Roddenberry's lyrics. | |
Hungarian Goulash No. 5 | Allan Sherman / Johannes Brahms | en | 1963 | Do you like Hungarian food / They have a goulash which is very good. (Pumpernickel is also associated with Westphalia.) |
Ta Katie t'a quitté | Boby Lapointe | fr | 1962 | Pour une sonnerie, c'est une belle çonnerie! Legendary tonguetwister. Virtual excerpt: Video, possibly from another time or person: |
James Bond theme | John Barry | 1962 | Quasi-ska version. Virtual excerpt: | |
Little boxes ('Ticky tacky') | Malvina Reynolds | en | 1962 | We all look just the same. |
On the Ning Nang Nong | Spike Milligan | en | 1959 | Where the cows go Bong! |
Poisoning pigeons in the park | Tom Lehrer | en | 1959 | |
Elube (Mi Churri, gran perrito/My doggie, big little doggie) | Ndirande Pitch Crooners / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1958 | The original song in Nyanja (Malawi) is about a girl, but it scans like a dog biting its tail, and so my English version is a homage to all the little doggies out there. |
Concerto for Barrel Organ and Orchestra / Brass Band / Wind Band / Piano etc | Bernie Green | 1957 | The organ-grinder has at last got a serious classical gig but can't throw off the habits of a lifetime. With bleeding chunks of Tchaikovsky (1st Piano Concerto), Rachmaninov (2nd Piano Concerto), Greig (Piano Concerto), Fučik (Entry of the Gladiators) and Waldteufel (Les Patineurs). Virtual excerpt: | |
Sunday Mirror | ET Mensah | en | 1956 | Highlife ad for a 1950s Ghanaian newspaper. |
The abominable snowman | Ogden Nash | en | 1956 | I've never seen an abominable snowman, / I'm hoping not to see one, / I'm also hoping, if I do, / That it will be a wee one. |
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus OR I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth | H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society | en | 1955 OR 2011 | Innocent entertainment from when all families were normal OR Christmas fantasy about the Myths of Cthulhu. |
A woman in love | Frank Loesser | 1955 | Modified transcription of a broken-down French organ-grinder's version of this Broadway standard. | |
El baile de los pajaritos / The birdie song / De vogeltjesdans | El payo Juan Manuel / Werner Thomas / Johnny Hoes | es nl en | 1955 | |
When you are old and grey | Tom Lehrer | en | 1953 | On request only. Virtual excerpt: |
I hold your hand in mine, dear | Tom Lehrer | en | 1953 | I press it to my lips / I take a healthy bite / From your dainty fingertips. |
How much is that doggie in the window | Bob Merrill / Patti Page | en | 1953 | The one with the waggly tail. Lita Roza's version was Maggie Thatcher's favourite song. |
The old dope pedlar | Tom Lehrer | en | 1953 | When happiness is a powder, from the well-known Harvard mathematician. |
Frosty the defrosted snowman | Lonzo and Oscar | en | 1953 | |
I'm no communist | Carson Robison / Scotty Wiseman | en | 1952 | Cold War country alla Ronald Reagan: I'm no communist, I'll tell you that right now / I believe a man should own his own house and car and cow / I like this private ownership, I wanna be left alone / Let the government run its business, and let me run my own. |
Marijuana, the devil's flower | Mr. Sunshine and his Guitar Pickers | en | 1951 | |
Time to go home (Andy Pandy) | Maria Bird | en | 1950 | We didn't have a telly, but for some reason it's still familiar. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Joe Louis was a fighting man | The Dixieaires | en | 1950 | Another boxing number. |
Yo tengo un moco | Trad. / Wagner / Mozart / Pierre Degeyter / traductor comunista desconocido | es | 1950 | Mashup with kazoo of a Spanish children's song about eating your bogies, The Mastersingers of Nuremburg, Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the Internationale ('Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers'). |
Take you meat out me rice | Lord Kitchener | en | 1950 | |
Smoke, smoke that cigarette | en | 1950 | ||
Unemployment Compensation Blues | Les Pine / Barbara Dane / George Browne | en | 1949 | And when I'm through with my weekly routine, / I spend my money on Benzedrine. / I've got those 'By the time I get my check, / I become a nervous wreck' blues. |
The blue Danube | Spike Jones | en | 1945 | It's green. |
Stalin wasn't stallin' | Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet | en | 1943 | An American gospel quartet lauds Uncle Joe's revenge on his old friend Hitler. |
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth | Spike Jones | en | 1940 | A little girl's terrible lisp is caused by her insufficient dentition. Works well at primary schools and dental conferences. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
My girl's pussy | Robert Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders | en | 1940 | Often it goes out at night, returns at break of dawn / No matter what the weather's like it's always nice and warm. |
Hawaii | Mary J. Muckle / Anon / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1940 | There are three words that sweetly blend, / That on the heart are graven; / A precious soothing balm they lend– / They’re Mother, Home and Hawaii! |
Lydia, the Tattooed Lady | Yip Harburg / Harold Arlen / Groucho Marx / The Muppets | en | 1939 | From At the Circus. Appears as Todd's new ringtone in Breaking Bad. |
With her head tucked underneath her arm | Rudy Vallee | en | 1937 | Comic Anne Boleyn ghost song |
When I'm cleaning windows | George Formby | en | 1936 | From the film, Keep Your Seats, Please |
Wunderbar | Zarah Leander | en | 1935? | Popularised in Britain as 'Wonderbra' |
Shave 'em dry | Lucille Bogan | en | 1935 | I've got nipples on my titties big as the end of my thumb / I got something tween my legs 'd make a dead man come. |
To The Tabulating Machine Division (IBM Songbook) | IBM employees | en | 1935 | Punch a card for every sale that's made. / There's a record which will never fade. / Sort them out by man and state - / Speedily we tabulate. Etc. etc. |
Nobody loves a fairy when she's 40 | Arthur Le Clerq / Tessie O'Shea | en | 1935 | |
Ugly woman | Roaring Lion / Sir Lancelot / Jimmy Soul | en | 1934 | If you want to be happy and live a king's life, never make a pretty woman your wife! |
Ursonate / Sonate in Urlauten | Kurt Schwitters | 1932 | Schwitters wanted to destroy conventional forms. This mashup with JS Bach and reggaetón is a revenge of the nerds. | |
My brother makes the noises for the talkies | Albert Whelan / Jack Payne / Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band | en | 1931 | |
Doris the goddess of wind | Douglas Byng | en | 1930? | From his royal campness. Used in Alan Bennett's 2010 play The Habit of Art. |
Seven skeletons found in the yard | Lord Executor aka Felix Garcia (ca.1878-1952) | en | 1930 | From a calypso genius and the king of extempo: Hideous discoveries and monstrous crime / Always happen at the Christmas time. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Cabaret boys | Douglas Byng / Lance Lister | en | 1928 | Camp classic from the Pansy Craze, with numerous double entendres |
El menú | Zöllner / Arregui Trecet | es | 1927 | La versión conocida es la de Los Xey (1953), pero canto la que se hizo para la Coral del Ensanche de Bilbao. |
It's a long way from amphioxus | Philip H. Pope | en | 1921 | Evolution, sung to Tipperary: Well, it's goodbye to fins and gill slits, and it's welcome lungs and hair! / It's a long, long way from Amphioxus, but we all came from there. |
El dilluns jo no treballo | Valenciano | ca | 1920 | Song in Valencian lists the days of the week on which I don't work. Their number is lucky. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Panpipe call used by an itinerant French pot-mender and pig-gelder in Galicia | Trad. | es fr | 1920 | With humorous quotes from Spanish Golden Age theatre (inc Quevedo and Calderón), sketching the accent, appearance and behaviour of French castrators and pot menders in the 16th/17th centuries. (Ambulant moped-chain-powered knife-grinders in Barcelona and other Mediterranean cities still use panpipes as advertising medium, but with less sophistication.) |
I'm living alone and I like it | Sophie Tucker | en | 1920 | |
Second Sonata, The Airplane, fragmento | George Antheil | 1916 | Everything's back to front: The Singing Organ-Grinder is the plane. | |
Had je me maar | Louis Davids | nl | 1916 | Song that provided the nickname for the Dutch anarchist politician, Cornelis de Gelder. |
Toccata No. 2 | George Antheil | 1916 | ||
Mashup: Petrushka + My old man's a dustman | Igor Stravinsky / Lonnie Donegan | en | 1915 | Portrays on the organ the orchestral imitation by Stravinsky of a barrel organ and a musical box. The video shows the Bolshoi dancing my arrangement. Ends with one of my favourite children's songs. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
Sports et divertissements | Erik Satie | en | 1914 | A selection, in English. |
Woad aka National Anthem of the Ancient Britons | William Hope-Jones | en | 1910 | To Men of Harlech: Saxon, you can waste your stitches / Building beds for bugs in britches: / We have woad to clothe us, which is / Not a nest for fleas. |
La nina encantada | Joan Amades (Cançoner) | ca | 1910 | Jaime I of Aragón hunts his Hungarian queen, Violante, in the form of a stag. Alludes to the foundational myth of the Danubian country. Anti-folky version. |
England and America. I. On a Rhine Steamer | James Kenneth Stephen | en | 1909 | In short it's due to thee, / Thou kind of Western star, / That we have come to be / Precisely what we are. / But every now and then, / It cannot be denied, / You breed a kind of men / Who are not dignified |
The clean song | Trad. | en | 1900s? | There once was a farmer who sat on a rick / A ranting and raving and waving his / Fist at some people who sat on his walls etc. etc. |
Paternal. Tornant del Liceu en la nit del 7 de novembre de 1893 | Joan Maragall / The Singing Organ-Grinder | ca en | 1893 | I've done this a few times in Catalan and English but don't really know where to take it next. |
Epitaph for James Bosworth, who survived the Charge of the Light Brigade and died, aged 70, a stationmaster at Northam, Southampton | Ben Trovato | en | 1882 | His name was actually John Hacker/Hucker Bosworth and his service overseas in the 1850s doesn't seem to include Balaclava, but still a splendid thing: Though shot and shell flew around fast, / On Balaclava’s plain, / Unscathed he passed, to fall at last, / Run over by a train. |
The best of Tristan und Isolde | Wagner / The Singing Organ-Grinder | 1880 | Wagner was a big country and western fan. | |
The cummerbund: an Indian poem | Edward Lear | en | 1874 | |
Manantiales de nitroglicerina (Nitroglycerin springs) | Anón | es | 1873 | Anarchist song: Nivelacion social!... Rota la valla / No más habrá, no más ladrones; / Partirémos sus bienes, sus millones / Cuando llegue su hora á la canalla. |
The owl and the pussy-cat | Edward Lear / Mátyás Seiber | en | 1871 | Can be performed with a projection of the 1952 Halas and Batchelor cartoon short for which Seiber's music was written |
Cantata nacional | Josep Anselm Clavé | es | 1864 | In his collection, Flores de Estío, the Catalan master utters Hispanophile sentiments which many prefer to forget: ¡Gloria á ESPAÑA! dó en paz hoy florecen / Con las ciencias, la industria y las artes; / Dó el progreso derrumba baluartes / Que en talleres se ven transformar. |
Anem al treball | P.F. | ca | 1863 | Selection from a very long ode to work, from just before the First (Spanish) Republic: The world will always be / the same as it has been, / the poor will be with us always, / and the rich and artisans; / when God disposes, / you know what will happen: / as we find it / we will have to leave it, / let's not trust in fancies, / let's go to work. |
Land of my fathers | Evan James / James James / Private Eye | en cy | 1856 | Phonetic transliteration of the Welsh: My hen laid a haddock on top of a tree / Glad farts and centurions throw dogs in the sea. |
A orillas del Llobregat (Flores de Estío) | Josep Anselm Clavé | es | 1852 | Praise of the (industrialised) river south of Barcelona: A dar solaz al alma / Venid, niñas!... llegad! / Que aquí los céfiros / Agitan suaves / Las ramas fértiles / Donde las aves / Entonan cánticos, / Que alegran plácidos / Las ricas márgenes / Del LLOBREGAT! |
Coplas novas y divertidas las cuals esplican los mals ratos que solen donar las pusas los polls y las chinchas com nu veurà lo que no sirà siego | Ramon Barrull (Lérida / Lleida, C19th, printed by Coromines) / The Singing Organ-Grinder | ca | 1850 | Broadside ballad about vermin: Las chinchas es cosa bruta, / Conforme hos he dit; / Perque se solen posar, / A los pots y banchs dels llits. |
Limericks | Ranjit Bolt, Edward Lear et al | en | 1846-2014 | High-class doggerel. |
Little Billee aka Little Boy Billy | William Makepeace Thackeray / Bob Roberts | en | 1845 | Cannibal shanty based on Thackeray's parody of La Courte Paille / Il était un petit navire (C16th?). There are also Catalan and Italian versions, but the best are the Portuguese Nau Catarineta, sung ceremonially in parts of Brazil, and the Dutch Ketelbinkie. I believe the latter is also based on Thackeray. The best-known English melody is that of Bob Roberts and has much in common with that in Harold Scott's English Song Book (1925). Ralph Steadman did a nice piratey version. |
Parody of Heavenly Union | Anon | en | 1845 | Parody of Come, Saints and Sinners, Hear Me Tell, a hymn popular in the South, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845, the Anti-Slavery Office) |
The teetotallers | Rev. John Mason Neale | en | 1843 | Neale was a CoE conformist activist and scourge of dissenters |
The loving ballad of Lord Bateman | William Makepeace Thackeray / Charles Dickens | en | 1839 | Parody of a popular ballad. |
Ode to Joy / An die Freude | Schiller / Beethoven / Rowan Atkinson | de en | 1824 | Bremain would have won if they'd featured this in their ads. Perhaps. |
El lobo devorador | Trad. | es | 1800 | A ravenous wolf in 19th century Spain. I don't think it's a metaphor for George Borrow: Es posible, justo cielo / que permita tu bondad / que contra el hombre se ensañe / una fiera sin piedad? |
El cura enfermo | Anon | es | 1800 | Priestly love, Cadiz style: Estando un curita malito en la cama, / a la media noche llamó a la criada. / -¿Qué tiene el curita, tan deprisa llama? / -Quiero chocolate, lo quiero en la cama. |
Los ayres fijos: poema didáctico en seis cantos | José Viera y Clavijo | es | 1784 | Ode to a hot-air balloon: Moradores de Nesle ¿Que es aquello / Que veis venir rasgando el Horizonte? / No es la ascencion de Ganimedes bello, / Ni el precipicio del audaz Faetonte, / Del Iris matizado no es destello, / Ni el Pegaso que dexa el doble monte; / Es la Nave Aërostática velera / De Argonautas que surcan la atmosféra. |
La locura más discreta que se dice executó la villa de Níjar del obispado de Almería, el día trece de septiembre de este presente año de 1759 | Diego Ventura Rejón y Lucas | es | 1759 | Vía Ortega y Gasset, a tale of popular madness: Con aquestos desbaratos / toda casa esta assolada, / no dejando tales tratos, / cazos, sillas, platos, nada, / ni aun la nada entre dos platos. |
Here, here, here is pig and pork | en | 1680s | Irish anti-Catholic song: Giving an Account of a Father Wifely, the Popish Bishop of Kildare in Ireland, and a Shop-keeper's Wife in High-street, Dublin. | |
Richard Lovelace / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1649 | First use of 'serenade' in English: What, though 'tis said I have a voice; / I know 'tis but that hollow noise / Which (as it through my pipe doth speed) / Bitterns do carol through a reed. | |
Dialogue Between a Glutton and an Echo | Anon | en | 1634 | Echo verse with audience participation. Lead: My belly I do defy. Echo: Fie! |
When that I was and a little tiny boy (Hey, ho, the wind and the rain) | William Shakespeare / John Harle | 1601 | Feste the Fool's closing song from Twelth Night. Version of Elvis Costello's version of the traditional version sung by Alfred Deller. | |
Dale si le das, mozuela de Terrassa | Anon / Cancionero de Barbieri | es | 1600 | Early modern joke song, where the expected obscenity always turns into something inoffensive: Una mozuela de Logroño / Mostrado me habia su co.......po de lana negro que hilaba. Con una larga etcétera. |
Villançico contrahaziendo a los mocaros que sienpre van ynportunando a los peregrinos con demandas | Juan del Encina | lf | 1520ish | A beggars' song: the poet was in the Holy Land in ±1520 and tried to reproduce the lingua franca of the hordes of fake amputees and saints who plagued poor pilgrims there and at home: 'Benda ti istran plegrin: / benda, marqueta, maidin. / Benda, benda stringa da da / agugeta colorada. / Dali moro namorada / y ala ti da bon matin.' |
Sabre dance | Aram Khachaturian / Andrews Sisters | en | Pure Orientalism: Drums are booming, cellos zooming, / Cymbals crashing, sabres flashing in a willy nilly sort of way,. | |
The worm song (nobody likes me) | en | |||
My uncle's Sunday School | en | Lighthearted Bible education. My mum used to sing the verse about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (The Lord provides his children with an asbestos shirt). Chorus: Old folks, young folks, everbody come,/Join my uncle's Sunday School & make yourselves at home:/ Bring your sticks of chewing gum and sit upon the floor,/And we'll tell you bible stories that you never heard before Video, possibly from another time or person: | ||
La fiera malvada de Jerusalén | Trad. | es | Ballad about mythical monsters: Dos cuernos en la cabeza / también alas que volaba / vestida como una tortuga / no la hería ninguna bala. | |
Pican los mosquitos | El payo Juan Manuel | es | Me duelen los hue...sos | |
El milagro de Benarrabal | Trad. | es | Muchos hay que en Dios no creen / ni a su madre la veneran / de los templos hacen mofa / y al anciano lo apedrean |
Update: 2019/08/30
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