On Sunday, September 2, 1906, The New York American and Journal published this song in their music section. The Journal published many songs in their music section from around 1900 to 1908 or so and their publications were perhaps the premier ones when it came to newspaper sheet music. Most newspapers published the sheet music as pages inside the paper, the Journal went to a great deal of trouble to provide full size sheet music complete with original cover art as an insert. A great deal of their wonderful sheet music has come down to us, but it is deteriorating badly, as newsprint often does. For more on this subject, see our issue about Newspaper music supplements published in October of 2000. This is a fine song, by a fairly unknown and obscure composer that is about a Mexican beauty but as with many of the songs from Tin Pan Alley, the music does not at all reflect the music of Mexico. Instead, we have a song simply using a Mexican "Queen
Even in Mexico, compilations of Mexican folk music with notation for the fingerstyle or classical guitar are hard to find; most are single sheet music, badly printed, and without accompanying CDs. This one is a high-quality publication, and even if you don't play guitar, the CD is worth the price....
