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Topic: can you name this (filipino?) song? (Read 1967 times)

db05

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can you name this (filipino?) song?

on: March 08, 2009, 01:41:42 PM

*Don't worry, I got it now. Thanks!

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You can hear it here:

Unfortunately, I do not know this song, and I had to ask my mom and aunt. The English version goes, "I was poorly born on top of the mountain..." and somehow ends up with a "broken guitar"... But I believe it is a Filipino song, since the one played in the encore is the Carinosa. Even the English title would do. It is too bad I do not know this music.