{"id":5745,"date":"2025-05-17T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2025-05-17T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:30:28","slug":"ni-dinero-ni-nada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/ni-dinero-ni-nada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ni el dinero ni nada (Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Jim\u00e9nez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ni el dinero ni nada (Jose Alfredo Jimenez)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljgFGwosv-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ni el dinero ni nada&#8221; is a Mexican counterpart of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/down-in-the-boondocks\/\">Down in the Boondocks<\/a>&#8221; (last week&#8217;s post) and &#8220;Mansion on the Hill,&#8221; a song in the voice of a poor boy speaking to the rich girl he loves and cannot win.<\/p>\n<p><em>Because I am as I am, without reason you disdain me<br \/>\nBecause you live among people who say, &#8220;He is not on your level.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t let me sing at your window grill, as others sing,<br \/>\nNor let me cry out that I love you with deep tenderness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was composed by the grand master of ranchera songwriting, Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Jim\u00e9nez, who was also one of Mexico&#8217;s most loved and respected singers. There is no real Anglo equivalent; maybe Hank Williams, but it&#8217;s bigger than that: imagine Frank Sinatra had not only recorded a definitive portion of the American songbook, but composed a large proportion of the songs &#8212; by some counts over a thousand &#8212; and you&#8217;ve got something like the idea. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5746 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jose-Alfredo-Jimenez-scaled-e1746839835449.webp?resize=277%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jose-Alfredo-Jimenez-scaled-e1746839835449.webp?w=316&amp;ssl=1 316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jose-Alfredo-Jimenez-scaled-e1746839835449.webp?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Jos\u00e9 Alfredo <\/span>wrote many kinds of songs, about many subjects, but for many fans his specialty was songs about guys drinking to forget and celebrate the ups and downs of their lives &#8212; the most famous example\u00a0 is &#8220;El Rey,&#8221; and if you were looking for a Mexican parallel to &#8220;One for My Baby and One for the Road,&#8221; an obvious nominee would be &#8220;El ultimo trago&#8221; (&#8220;the last swallow,&#8221; as in &#8220;have this bottle with me, and with the last swallow we&#8217;ll leave&#8221;);\u00a0 instead of singing to the bartender about the woman who has left him, he is drinking a last drink with her, but a classic photo shows him alone at the bar, and that&#8217;s the image that lingers.<\/p>\n<p>I learned &#8220;Ni el dinero ni nada&#8221; from the same Flaco Jim\u00e9nez album that gave me &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/gritenme-piedras\/\">Gritenme piedras del campo<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;Tu nuevo cari\u00f1ito&#8221; &#8212; it was my basic introduction to the great Mexican songbook, and a very good beginning. 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