Angelitos Negros

This is such a beautiful song, does anyone have a translation?

google can translate it ; )

I'm mexican, so I know this song.

This is a mexican song, theme for the movie from the same name: Angelitos Negros, from 1948, an adaptation to the novel "Imitation of Life", about a white racist woman giving birth to a black girl, his husband is white, but she blames him for it, guessing he has some black blood on his veins, 'cause he is a strong supporter for the black people. She rejects her daughter for several years, and in some fury instant, mixed with some kind of insanity for not comprehending why this happens to her, she struggles with her maid who's defending the little girl, a black woman who has been with the family for many, many time, and who was very appreciated by the father of the little black girl, who in fact has always known the truth. When they struggle, the maid falls by the stairs, and is then when her husband screams the truth: the black maid is her mother. When she knows the truth it's too late, cause the maid dies because of the fall The maid gave her daughter to the family she worked for, who cared very much for her, so she cuold have a better life than living with her mother, a black - poor rejected because of her color - woman. She was born from an adventure from a white guy who simply wanted to have sex whith her and abandonned after knowing she's pregnant.

The translation is:

Tittle: Little Black Angels

Painter born in my land, with the foreign brush, painter who keeps the course, of so many ancient painters.

Even the Virgin is white, paint her little black angels, that also go tho heaven, all the good little blacks.

Painter if you paint with love, why reject their color? If you know in heaven, God loves them too.

Bedroom saints painter, if you have a soul in your body, why when painting your canvas, you forgot the black ones.

Everytime you paint churches, you paint beautyfull little angels, but you never remembered, to paint a black angel.

Lyrics: A.Eloy Blanco Music: M. Alvarez Maciste

The father of the little black girl sang it to her one day she was very sad because of being rejeted by her mother, and she had painted her face with white makeup, so her mother could accept her.

By the way, this movie is one of the so many ones performed by Pedro Infante, probably the most popular mexican actor from the so called "golden age of mexican cinema", that had place in the 40's.

I am cross-posting my comments from: lyricstranslate.com/en/angelitos-negros-black-little-angels.html

The song is by Manuel Álvarez (Maciste), as adapted from a poem by Andrés Eloy Blanco. The original longer poem is here: cancioneros.com/nc/13547/0/angelitos-negros-andres-eloy-blanco-popular-venezolana

The Maciste version is here: note its original punctuation: cancioneros.com/nc/4562/0/angelitos-negros-andres-eloy-blanco-manuel-alvarez-maciste (avoid the automatic translation!)

An Eartha Kitt YouTube in English here: youtube.com/watch — an amazing live performance.

Her equally good Spanish version is also on YouTube with stills, e.g. youtube.com/watch

Also, an Esperanto Karaoke YouTube is here: youtube.com/watch

PS: For additional comments about this song, see songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858705529/

Update 2015-12-04: There is an even better Esperanto version by singer-translater Emmanuel Rovere: youtube.com/watch

There is also a YouTube of Eartha Kitt's 1953 version, with its [Spanish] lyrics included as subtitles: youtube.com/watch

A reading (by Antonio Rodriguez Muñoz) of the longer Andrés Eloy Blanco poem, with text-pages, is here: youtube.com/watch