Canta para mi, llorona / Sing for me weeping woman.

This painting is inspired in a character called "La Llorona" (Weeping woman).
I have always been fascinated by this story, it has been and definitely will continue to be my source of inspiration.
La Llorona is originally a Mexican legend which hails from over a hundred years old. As time pass by, this story became a song, a very traditional song which has been sing in different dialects and styles, like boleros, sones and rancheras.
It is a very spiritual song that tells the story of an Indian woman who drowned her children in the river and then kill herself in rage and craziness after knowing that  her Spanish man abandoned her for another white woman.
When she goes to heaven, the creator asked her about her two children and she is sent back to earth to look for her children and not allowed to come back until  find them.
Then she returns to earth as a spirit, wondering around rivers and pueblos (towns), crying in sorrow for her missed children.
I believe this is the reason why this song is so very venerated in Mexico and other Latin American countries, because is not just about a woman, is about a mother,  crying for her children, for all of us.

For this particular painting I chose two fragments of the song :

Ay de mi, Llorona, Llorona de azul celeste.

Ay de mi, Llorona, Llorona de azul celeste.

Y aunque la vida me cueste, Llorona

No dejaré de quererte.

(Weeping woman as blue as the sky, although it costs me my life, I cannot stop loving you.)

De las arcas de la fuente ¡ay Llorona!

corre el agua y nace la flor;

si preguntan quien canta ¡ay Llorona!

les dices que un desertor,

que viene de la campaña ¡ay Llorona!

en busca de su amor.

(From the source of strength, running water and the flower is born. If they ask you who is singing, tell them it is a deserter in search of his love.)

La Llorona en dialecto Nahuatl