Smithsonian Folkways, Oct. 9, 2015
Excerpt #1
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"Bate Bate Chocolate" is a traditional Latin American song that is sung in Spanish.
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I also explain to the students more of the origin story of chocolate. The Mayans of Central America are believed to be the first to discover cacao as early as 900 AD! They learned that the beans inside the cacao pods could be harvested and made into a yummy treat! Mayans used to make chocolate a lot differently than we do today. It used to be a liquid made from crushed cocoa beans, spices such as chili and cinnamon, vanilla, and honey. Now most chocolate is made with sugar and milk. Mayans used to call it “the food of the gods” and it was often consumed during religious ceremonies and marriage celebrations."...
(José-Luis Orozco)
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Google search from Spanish to English= "uno, dos, tres" = "one, two, three"
bate= "stir"; "mix"
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - MGOL Rhymes: Bate Bate Chocolate (Spanish version with lyrics)
Mother Goose on the Loose, Jul 1, 2021
Lyrics:
Bate, bate, chocolate,
Tu nariz de cacahuate.
Uno, dos, tres, cho!
Uno, dos, tres, co!
Uno, dos, tres, la!
Uno, dos, tres, te!
Bate, bate, chocolate!
English translation:
Shake, shake Chocolate,
Your peanut nose.
One, two, three, cho!
One, two, three, co!
One, two, three, la!
One, two, three, te!
Shake, shake Chocolate!
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"in: Songs, Dora the Explorer Songs, Dora the Explorer Season 1, and 6 more
Bate, Bate, Chocolate
Bate, Bate, Chocolate (Spanish for "Mix, Mix, Chocolate" or "Stir, Stir, Chocolate"; also known as "The Chocolate Song") is a chocolate mixing song from "The Chocolate Tree", "Best Friends" and "Dora's Big Birthday Adventure”. It was also heard briefly in "El Día De Las Madres" by the Chocolate Tree.
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Lyrics
Bate, bate, chocolate (2×)
Mix your chocolate, chocolate
Bate, bate, chocolate!
Trivia
In El Día De Las Madres, Chocolate Tree only sang the first line twice when Dora and Boots are near him.
It is the twentieth track in Dora the Explorer (album).
Dora's voice actress from Seasons 7-8, Fátima Ptacek, says that her favorite episode is The Chocolate Tree because of this song and she used to sing it with her grandmother when she watched the show.
Here's proof.
In Dora, there is a similar song called Bate Chocolate, but is about making cookies."
Mr. Tzonkov, May 24, 2020 -snip- Mr. Tzonkov shares that this song is from Mexico and it is about a delicious Mexican sauce that is made with chocolate, rice, and tomatoes. -snip- Here are the lyrics for this version of that song [with the English translation in brackets] Bate, bate [stir, stir]
chocolate
con arroz [with rice] y con tomate [and with rice] uno, dos, tres cho [one, two, three and then clap while you say the first syllable of the word "chocolate"] uno, dos, tres, co [one, two, three and then clap while you say the second syllable of the word "chocolate"] uno, dos, tres, la [one two three and then clap while you say the third syllable of the word "chocolate"] uno, dos, tres, te [one two three and then clap while you say the fourth syllable of the word "chocolate"]
talia Curiel, Apr 15, 2011
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These children are singing Spanish and English translations of the "Bate Bate Chocolate" song .
Here's my transcription (Additions and corrections are welcome)
[This adaptation uses the same tune (but a slower tempo) to Johnny Otis' 1958 R&B song "Willie And The Hand Jive"]
Bate Bate cho coh lah tay.[clap clap clap clapclap]
Bate Bate cho coh lah tay [clap clap clap clapclap]
One, two, three STIR!
seven and eight STIR!
nine and ten STIR!
Bate Bate, stir the chocolate [clap clap clap clapclap]
Chocolate, chocolate, stir the chocolate [clap clap clap clapclap]
Chocolate, chocolate, stir the chocolate [clap clap clap clapclap]
Stir, the chocolate stir! [clap clap clapclap]
Stir the chocolate stir! [clap clap clapclap]
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I just learned about the Mexican song & rhyme "Chocolate" as a result of surfing YouTube for children's rhymes.
ReplyDeleteThat search also led to the German duo Soul Control's 2004 hit song "Chocolate (Chocolate (Choco Choco)".. Apparently that song was a big hit in Europe and in some other parts of the world, but not in the United States. I think some of the lyrics might have something to do with that such as the beginning of that song:
" Whoaaa!
Everybody in the world likes chocolate
Oooh, we love it!
Oh, it makes you happy
Yeah, it gets you sexy
It makes you fat but we don't care about that
Now, come on!"...
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In addition, that song's official YouTube video is an animated piece that shows the Soul Patrol duo (of a White man who was born in Germany and a Black man who was born in Sierra Leone but lives in Germany) dancing and singing in various scenes throughout the world that are full of stereotypical depictions of people and images of young women with big boobs and skimpy bikini tops.
In spite of those lyrics, it seems that this song was (and still is) directed to children and a lot of commenters in the YouTube discussion threads about that song (particularly from Europe) wrote in the comments threads for two of the Soul Control videos that they have fond childhood memories of Soul Control's "Chocolate (Choco Choco)" song.
That song uses the tune to "La Bama" which might have helped its popularity. But what interests me is that the singers use the Spanish pronunciation of the word "chocolate" and the lyrics include the Spanish words "uno", "dos", "tres" and no one in the three YouTube discussion threads that I read for that song shared that that song was based on the Mexican folk song and rhyme "Chocolate". Strange...
Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Control for information about Soul Control & "Chocolate (Choco Choco)". Also, click https://genius.com/Soul-control-chocolate-lyrics to read the lyrics for that song.