Ry Cooder - Canción Mixteca (Paris, Texas O.S.T.) 

This was my dad's favorite movie. He and I watched it many times together before I was even in school. The image of the man in the red cap burnt into my mind for years and I couldn't remember why. My dad would always talk about visiting Paris, Texas. So much that it bothered my mom. I'd always feel nostalgic and sentimental when I hear Spanish/Mexican guitar. My father dies and 5 years later I stumble upon this. I don't know what to say.

R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926- September 15, 2017) :(

Most movie buffs have this in their top ten It’s a masterpiece Soundtrack is beautiful too

I'm mexican... when i see the clip of this song, i started to cry... Ry Cooder could express the pain and nostalgic of this amazing song... even, also the fact that singer could paint the sad of this song... my favorite version...

Tears, only tears...

The best movie ever made for a rough father/son relationship. Love is strange, and maybe he was too old- maybe she’s too young, and maybe you’re just too important to lose. Sometimes the only way to love somebody is from the start; as a stranger.

Let us all honor the fact that is one of America's greatest actors singing this most impossibly beautiful song. Known for years as a great character actor and beloved and admired by others in LaLa Hollywood who knew real greatness, Harry Dean Stanton never won a major award, and "Paris, Texas" was his only substantial lead role. Yet he was the very best at his craft. . And he was not a professional singer, yet he does the greatest singing job ever with this extraordinary song, and the great craftsman that he was, he gets all of the powerful emotions of this song just right. HDS kept singing this song until he was 91. RIP, Unsung Legend.

Simply tears me up every time I hear this. Both the instrumental version and the version (this one) where Harry Dean Stanton sings this heart-breaking ranchera. I was working on a creative project in NYC once and this soundtrack was playing - when this came on I stood where I was and bawled. Much to the amazement of the woman I was working with.

RIP Harry Dean Stanton. Aside from his incredible acting, what a beautiful voice he had. A real shame he didn't make album after album.

GOD How incredible is Ry Cooder? He must be one of the most brilliant musicians of all time. Dean sure has a lovely voice. PURE MAGIC!

i knew these people, these two people.......

This is an incredibly power piece of music.....................it carries a lot of water.

This music means so much to me. I don't know what the singer is saying but the music cuts thru me like a knife. The music brings me to tears for reasons i don't understand.

Viví muchos años lejos de mi querido Oaxaca, la tierra que me vio nacer. Aunque no soy de la Mixteca (nací en Valles Centrales, la capital oaxaqueña), siempre me sentía nostálgico al escuchando esta canción y se me escurrían las lágrimas por estar lejos de la tierra que amo con todo mi corazón.

Ry Cooder doesn't try to be the fastest guitarist, he concentrates on bringing out the guitar's beauty. His playing and Harry DS's raw emotion can soften the coldest of hearts. RC had to convince Harry DS that he was good enough to sing the song - I'm eternally grateful that he did. After recording his vocal, Harry DS said 'I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing reeally gave me the confidence to do it.'

ry cooder plays this so tenderly

I just watched this beautiful movie with great a magistral portrayed of the characters, and direcction the script by one prolific son of the YS, Sam Shepard; so full of emotions, so delicate, and with the magical soundtrack from the guitar of Ry Cooder, I just LOVE It , and from now on, its one of my favorite movies of all times. Harry Dean Stanton RIP 😢 !!

I weep a tear at every note from this tune! I shed my heart at every word I hear!

Who knew perfection was a song lasting just four minutes and seventeen seconds...……...but that's what this song is. A song that moves you like no other.

Happy Birthday Ry Cooder! (March 15) My favorite soundtrack of all time. This song is so heartbreaking, nostalgic, and poignant. It's the perfect poem to lost love.

Is there anything more beautiful than this?

First heard this version 20 years ago. This tune became one of my favorites to hear and to sing.

Canción escrita por el compositor Oaxaqueño José López Alvarez entre 1912 y 1915 ¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. How far I am from the land where I was born! Immense nostalgia invades my heart; And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry, I want to die from this feeling. Oh Land of Sun! I yearn to see you! Now that I'm so far from you, I live without light and love; And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry, I want to die from this feeling.

The Kentuckian with the Mexican soul pairs with the greatest guitarist of our time for this kind of music to perform one of the most painfully beautiful renditions of the most deeply moving song of loss ever written anywhere. There is great wisdom here: African poet-philosopher and legendary singer activist said this: "The more painful the story a song tells, the more beautiful we must make the music. We do this to defuse the tension."

Every time that I listen this song a tear begin to fall…… too touching….. love it!

I have to admit that Hispanic music often enters areas of human expression unequaled in any other culture.

One of the best films and songs of all time!

¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento Al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento ¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento Just in case ya wanna sing along

Great song, performance, guitar, singing, everything God Bless!

RIP both Harry and Sam. Legends for all times.

My favorite movie ever!!! ❤

Ha logrado transmitir la sensibilidad propia del mestizaje (de muchos pueblos) de América Latina como nunca escuché de ningún otro estadounidense ¡Bravo!

wow! Cada vez que esucho esta cancion me sangra el corazon y pese a que soy Español, me siento mexicano

I love this song. I first heard it when Harry Dean Stanton came out on Letterman to push the movie. He sang it ad lib with the guitar guy backing him (Will?). He threw in a "grito", the crowd laughed thinking Harry was joking but he wasn't and he just kept going full speed ahead totally into it.

This movie made a lot of inpression! so beautiful filmed and the music magical!!

Hauntingly Beautiful !

Preciosa canción que emociona siempre. Versión maravillosa la de Ry Cooder

Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento; y al ver me tan solo y triste qual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. Oh tierra del sol!, suspiro por verte ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.

Just stunning.

This is so lovely......

Thank you. Infinite Love and Gratitude.

such emotion

Me estruja el corazón

Quisiera llorar, Quisiera morir de sentimento. "Canción Mixteca" author Jose Lopez Alaves 1912

Just enjoy and Lurrvve every minute of it!

Ahh..my afternoon soothing sound

R.I.P. singer Harry Dean Stanton. 9-15-2017

The rare recording of Demetrio Dehesa is the best version ever for me. However, beautiful song !

Ry Cooder turned down the Rolling Stones who wanted him to join he was a musician not a slave to fame

There was a fire, a man, seemingly forgets about his past, about himself. The most important thing, his family. You don’t need anything else, this movie just showing how relationships can be rebuilt, the purity of it, and the soundtrack… this movie is like therapy , everyone should try

IVE ALWAYS LOVED ITALIAN AND LATINO MELODIES!!!!!!

a musica mais bonita do mundo! como o filme!

Immer wieder schön zu hören

It's such a beautiful song.

Just thousand of thanks for the uploading

E Ry foi quém de facer cantar o actor. Parabéns! Uma joia (alfaiate)

the time to cry is now

like this one a lot

Heart-breakening.......

I Love this!

Mi querida Tierra del Sol ...Dear Land of Sun

Incredible.

Beautiful x

gracias es muy bueno, superchivo

Que ganas de llorar

So many nice memories - So viele schöne Erinnerungen

Love it!!!!

wonderful :)

Beautiful.

Thanks for post ;-)

年に一回は必ず観る映画🎞✨

amazing

Paris Texas, chef d'œuvre impérissable

Wow!

muy bonita, gloria a dios

muy bonita Canción ...

Que lejos estoy del suelo dònde he nacido I am so far from the ground where I was born Inmesa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento Great sadnes come to my mind al verte tan solo y trizte cual hoja al viento when i see me sadnes like a leaf at the air O tierra del sol suspiro por verte O land of the sun I want to see you Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor Now when i am far I live with out light, with out love

R.I.P. , H.D.S.

'Que Lejos Estoy' How far away from home!!!!!

this fucking song eats at my soul

The first time I heard this, I was instantly reminded of Waltz for Zizi from Cowboy Bebop, and in someways I wouldn’t be surprised if this movie was an influence to the show in its nonviolent parts, especially in the concept chasing moments that have long gone with only opinions on what happened remaining.

Meraviglia.

.muy bueno

Lovely isn't it?!!

gracias dios

Yes, it really is.

Vaya con Dios, Harry Dean Stanton...

Video days 1991

I miss Harry Dean Stanton.

cool

tears

No there isn't. This is heaven!

😭😭😭😭🌼🌻🌺🌸🌻🌼🌺🌸

Imaginense a Amores perros con esa rola

That was Ry Cooder playing the guitar here in the clip from the film _Paris, Texas?_ I didn't know that.

🌸💛🌌

Manuel solo gracias .

El Scorchio! musica.

oneof the most sad and beautifull song ever ever written.......thos f...mexicans have the same kaimo as the greeks