Songs for the elusive 3rd pers. sing. preterite

Certain things are super easy to find songs for. Reflexives. Present tense, particularly yo y tú. Preterite yo y tú. That’s about all love songs do, right? Talk about you and me in the past, lol. But the other day my colleague asked if I knew of any songs for 3rd-person preterite, and that was tough. I went through my whole lyrics file (which I’ll email to you if you DM me @wandermami on twitter) and I did find two songs. The first I don’t recommend for below Spanish 3. The song is Mojado by Ricardo Arjona. It’s very politically charged and full of the poetic layers of meaning typical of Arjona. Please note that videos on YouTube were not uploaded by SonyBMG–I’ll keep my eyes out for that one.

But my colleague teaches Spanish 1 and 2 so my quest continued. I did finally come across a good one–Arroyito by Fonseca. It has 9 occurrences of 3rd person preterite, 7 of them unique. And it’s a good song by a good guy with a good video with no copyright problems.