Dansansoy is a popular Ilonggo Folk Song, sung even by non-Ilonggos. Dandansoy is one of the folk songs featured in a dance medley used in the Bacolod MassKara Festival. In the song, the singer bids farewell to a boy named Dansoy. I remember my mother singing this song to me when I was a kid in Iloilo. I would ask her where Payao is but unfortunately, she didn’t know. From then on, I thought Payao was a fictional place. Little did I know that it’s a barangay in the town of Binalbagan which I only learned when I moved here in Bacolod. Unfortunatlely, most people from Iloilo don’t know where Payao is.
Who wrote Dandansoy?
There’s a debate going on in the net about the actual writer of Dandansoy. This song is popularly known to be written by Augorio Abeto who hails from Binalbagan. He was a famous Ilonggo poet in the 1930’s and also a mayor of Binalbagan in 1941-1945. I could not find a record online as to when he actually wrote the song but there are references to his songs being popularized during the Japanese occupation. The popularity may be because the feeling of desolation that has engulfed the country during the war was reflected in the poignant lyrics and melody of Dandansoy.
The challenger to the throne as the writer of Dandansoy is Fortunata Magsipoc Ledesma from Culasi, Antique. Supporters of this claim said “Dandansoy” is from the phrase “ang daan nga dalan gin usoy”.
I’m personally doubtful of the claim since the lyrics of Dandansoy is in Hiligaynon and not Kinaray-a. I know Antiqueños can fluently write in Hiligaynon but they are a very proud people so in my opinion, if they are going to write anything, it is going to be in their language. I may be wrong in this, so in order to dispel any doubt, we are open to anybody who can provide a proof as to who actually wrote Dandansoy.
There were also claims from Leyte that the song was originally theirs. Sometimes, Dandansoy is also confused with Condansoy of the Cebuanos. There’s never been any doubt in my mind that Dandansoy is an Ilonggo song. The lyrics are unmistakably in Hiligaynon.
Below are the Dandansoy lyrics for those who grew up with it, to reminisce and for the young ones to appreciate. Learn it by heart. Sing it with your soul. It is our heritage.
Dandansoy Lyrics
Dandansoy, bayaan ta ikaw
Pauli ako sa Payao
Ugaling kun ikaw hidlawon
Ang Payao imo lang lantawon.
Dandansoy, kun imo apason
Bisan tubig di magbalon
Ugaling kun ikaw uhawon
Sa dalan magbobonbobon.
Kumbento, diin ang kura?
Munisipyo, diin hustisya?
Yari si Dansoy makiha.
Makiha sa paghigugma
Ang panyo mo kag panyo ko
Dal-a diri kay tambihon ko
Ugaling kun magkasilo
Bana ta ikaw,asawa mo ako.
Unfortunately, Payao was established in late 50’s and the song was popular during 20’s….
THANKS TO ALL! 😻
Especially to you GLad for having this narticle…
I ❤️ Dandansoy
You’re welcome migo Brent. 🙂
Ang DANDANSOY na kantang Hiligyanon ( na meron ding bersyon sa English, Tagalog at Kinaray-a). Ito ay pambabaeng kanta dahil nga sa linyang “Dandansoy bayaan ta ikaw”. Alangan naman lalaki ang kumanta nito! itong kanta ay bahagi na ng kultura sa bayan ng Culasi, Antique kung saan matagpuan ang maalamat at pinakamataas na bundok sa buong Panay, ang Bundok Madya-as…
1920s ng mapabilang ito sa librong Philippine Music Horizons Book, ganundin sa Philippine Progressive Music Book at nung dekada 90, na-publish sa CCP Encyclopedia na may mga katagang “a folksong from Culasi, Antique.
Ang taga-Negros lalung-lalo na sa Bnalbagan claimed na sa kanila to think na yung Barnagay Payao nay di pa na-exist nung 1920s at kilala pa itong Barrio Soledad. 1956 lang naging baryo Payao ang Soledad ika nga.
Augurio Abeto bilang compositor ng Dalawidaw at HINDI ng pambabaeng kanta na Dandansoy na ang tunay na kompositor namanay si Maestra Fortunata Dioso Magsipoc – Ledesmang Culasi Antique… Kruhay! 😀
Binalbagan is the oldest town in Buglas island a.k.a Negros Island. People have a account that like the time of Noah there was a great flood coming. And there was a giant snake from heaven to block the flood and protect t the people. Binalbagan from the word balabagan.
That is true that the Dandansoy was composed by my former elementary Principal, Fortunata Ledesma when she was a young lady. I know about this because her granddaughter was my classmate in elementary and I saw the book with her name as the composer. Her family moved to Koronadal South Cotabato .They are my neighbor.
We, my brothers &
sisters grew up with this song for reason that my mother told us that it was my grandmother’s sister composed the song. And yes, I even saw the piano she used to compose the song.
I am a daughter of Graciano Magbanua who was a singer during his time and also the time of Augurio or my father used to call him Aguring Abeto. I saw the song book used by my father with the songs composed by Augurio Abeto and I saw this song Dandansoy looked like it was a long lyric song and there was also the song Dalawidaw. My father was a singer of a band assisting fiesta ballroom dances in the different towns and barangays during that time. In fact I was enjoying the beat of these two songs mixed with the other songs in medley form and jazz beat and then my sister was danced by my father in between the song, instrumental part. My father was so proud singing the songs of Augurio Abeto saying that Abeto was a really good composer. That is why I am sure Augurio was the composer of this song. I wiil that song book in Payao because we are the native of Payao, my family.
Your claim makes no sense. This song was addressed obviously to “Dandansoy” who is male, so the composer must be female. Bana ta ikaw translates to “ you are my husband” unless Aguring Abeto is into same sex marriage in the 1930’s.
According to the grandson of Fortunata Magsipoc Ledesma, dandansoy is a type of seaweed in Culasi, Antique. She fondly called her husband dandansoy. And Payao is a barrio in Culasi, Antique.
This song was her thesis and was published under name.
fortunata magsipoc-ledesma was a native of Culasi, antique who stayed in iloilo and negros…a devoted baptist during her time that's why…Dandansoy, BAYAAN TA IKAW is a kinaray-a term…'LANTAWON' a kinaray-a term also…in hiligaynon that's TAN-AWON!
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Hi Froiland! Read the previous comments and you’ll find a lot of interpretation of Dandansoy from the readers.
32 yrs bumalik ako sa dati na tinitirhan namin,maalala ko pa rin yung bata pa ako
yan din kinakanta ng lola ng iniwan ako ng parents ko,,para pumunta ng mindanao….maalala ko yan ,,umiiyak ako kinakanta yan ng lola,
“Dandansoy, bayaan ta ikaw,
Pauli ako sa Payao…
Ugaling kun ikaw hidlawon,
Ang Payao imo lang lantawon…
Dandansoy, kun imo apason
Bisan tubig di ka magbalon
Ugaling kun ikaw uhawon
Sa dalan magbubon-bubon…
Kumbento, sa diin ang kura
Munisipyo sa diin hustisya
Yari si Dansoy makiha,
Makiha sa paghigugma…
Panyo mo kag ining panyo ko
gisi-gisi-a kay tambihon ko
Ugaling kug magkasilo
Bana ta ikaw, asawa mo ako…”
Music: Fortunata (Dioso) Magsipoc – Ledesma of Culasi
[her thesis in a music course at Philippine Normal School way back 1930s]
DANDANSOY… Singing My Roots
written by
Butch Ledesma Ferrer
Bidding goodbye to a husband in times when one needed him most is painful. More so if the husband would cross the seas to look for greener pasture in a faraway island of Mindanao in 1939. This pain had been kept a secret in Fortunata Magsipoc Ledesma’s heart for almost 26 years…until her longing was published nationwide…. as a song Dandansoy in 1965, in a book “Philippine Progressive Music Series Book III!
My grandmother, Fortunata, Lola Forting to us, was a teacher at Culasi Elementary School in Antique when the National Land Settlement Administration under the management of General Paulino Santos opened the gates of Mindanao, then touted as the Land of Promise, to settlers from Luzon and Visayas. Back in the 1930s, Mindanao was opened for settlement for the landless by the Commonwealth Government under President Manuel Luis Quezon.
Invited to explore the promises of the South were Antiqueño educators, one of whom was Lolo Ernesto Arriola Ledesma or Lolo Nesto, her husband and an Industrial Arts-Carpentry teacher, He would belong to the first wave of educators who were tasked to build and run a school in Marbel, then an established settlement area in Koronadal Valley next to Buayan (now General Santos City) and Tupi.
“Hordes of Visayans from Panay and Negros Occidental sailed to Mindanao on board S/S Tablas in the late 1930s, disembarking at Parang, Cotabato, followed by a three-day exodus southward, camping on the sides of the road at night to rest and sleep. Mostly sacadas (sugarcane farmhands) from Antique and Bacolod, the trekkers walked from Dulawan to Buluan in three days, crossed Buluan Lake by wooden boats to the shores of Lutayan to settle finally in Marbel,” my late Aunt Nora, their eldest daughter, would narrate to us, nieces and nephews. She was the historian of the family and from her I was able to trace roots.
Driven by a long and lingering understanding that Lolo Nesto’s family belonged to the landless, I believed that there was a strong motive for him to seek for fortune in Mindanao and that he had to leave his own family in Culasi, Antique to look for greener pastures. My belief had proven me wrong when, after thirty years, I had the occasion to visit Culasi in July of this year.
The journey to my Mom’s birthplace was enriching yet nostalgic. Embarking on a trip with the sole purpose of reestablishing and patching distance-severed ties with relatives because of migration resulted to more realizations than what I had expected. My last mental picture of Culasi was still vivid as how I saw it when I was eighteen years old attending school at UP in Iloilo City in 1978. My summer vacation that year was spent in that quaint little town where everyone seemed to be a relative. Culasi was a picture of simple living, laid back, yes, but happy!
My earliest recall of Culasi was through my mother’s story when, at eight months old, I was brought there for a vacation with my older siblings for the first time. It became very significant for me because I was pursued by a local “aswang” named Carnay. My mom told me that I was wailing that night after Carnay saw me earlier that day and commented how robust I was as a baby. Well. my grandfather’s house, for one, was a corner away from the kamposanto or sementeryo that made the setting ghoulish and Carnay’s house was just in front of Lolo’s house across the street.
Believed to be a neighborly “aswang”, Carnay who was transformed into a winged tik-tik had received invectives from my Lolo Nesto as he brandished his shining bolo pointing it to the roof directly over where I slept. “I know you,” he would say, “ try harming my grandson and you’ll get what you were looking for!” As soon as the scratching on the roof dissipated and flaps of imaginably big wings were heard shooing away, I was told I just stopped wailing and went on to sleep soundly, as if nothing happened! That particular story would prop me to travel back to Culasi and investigate on the veracity of the incident, True to what I’ve discovered, my older relatives confirmed that my mom’s story was never an urban legend! Carnay had long been dead and whoever inherited “that stone” to continue the aswang legacy became immaterial as the story was obliterated by the fast growth of the municipality as it adapted to modernization brought by the changing times.
Culasi has since then grown into an urbanized municipality being one of the major stops for airconditioned buses plying the Manila-Iloilo City route. Gone were the Bukaw wood-bodied buses with horizontal seating arrangement that could accommodate eight passengers per row, passing through the wall-less right side. Imagine how could a passenger taking the leftmost-side seat disembark at his destination with seven passengers blocking his way through? Gone were the days when the bus would negotiate rugged terrain and strong currents of widest rivers, sometimes nervously staying still in the middle of the onrush because the engine was wet and went dead? Gone too were the ambulant vendors of boiled eggs, peanuts, balulo, bande, bukayo, bulad, kalamay-hati, moscovado and sineguwelas, whose chattering would wake you up from a hypnotic trance due to the whirring of the engine and the constant bodyshake at a certain stop? Gone too was the panoramic view of Malalison Island from the backyard of my grandfather’s property as it stretched to the shores or the baybay, as present-day squatters, mostly Maguindanao muslims had swept away the memories of us children basking on the waves of the sea by building their shanties blocking the view? These images were just fragments of fleeting moments now and the shanties never ceased to grow in number.
The old Hispanic St. Michael’s simbahan and parokya then full of life-sized santos gave way to the modern architecture church and had been enclosed inside a perimeter wall, within the St. Michael’s Academy campus. The old plaza is now well-manicured and the town hall had undergone a major face-lift. It maintained the façade; however, the original Capiz-shell windows were painted, coating Culasi’s history with obscurity. Only the second floor lobby that transforms into a trial court and a public conference venue, if need be, housed a parcel of history that gave me the feel that a part of me was at home, at last!
There, hanged along the aged wooden walls were framed portraits of the past leaders called cabo publico del municipio in the 1800’s, municipal presidents in the early 1900’s and municipal mayors in the present. Among the frames were that of Municipal Presidents Fortunato Villaflor Ledesma, 1926-1928 and Guillermo Magsipoc, 1910-1912, my apoy Nato and apoy Imo. Then, an overwhelming realization crept over me. My grandparents’ families would not have been landless! Truth to the matter, I was shown the vast properties both families have – from the Ledesma’s hiraya properties to the Magsipoc’s baybay properties, still kumon! The expanse of properties was insignificant, though – what became a very vital discovery was that, my grandparents Fortunata and Ernesto were not landless. They belonged to the illustrados of Culasi, to prominent political clans that had served the municipality since the early 1900’s. Then what was it that drove my lolo Nesto to explore and to look for greener pastures in Mindanao? In Koronadal Valley per se?
Culasi just ushered me a lot of why’s. Then deductions came like pouring water – was it because of political families in conflict with differing ideologies? Was it because my grandmother’s family disapproved of my grandfather due to political beliefs? Was it because their love would like to stand the test of times in another world and be free without committing the classic Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet ultimate escape? Whatever was the motive then, it had lain covered by the lyrics of Dandansoy,…that glancing, just mere glancing, would establish a pact, a commitment of love that would meet again in another time on a cherished soil!
As I found myself on board a modern Ceres bus enroute to Iloilo for my trip back home to Koronadal, I was silently in pain, seeing the images of Culasi fleet away through the bus’ glass window. The trip had been too nurturing that I silently shed tears, in my heart I was singing, Dandansoy, the song of love, the song of my roots – and if ever I long for Culasi, all I have to do is glance at its direction, then I’ll be at peace, my mind and heart, aligned!
( from LEDESMA – FERRER: Dandansoy… Singing My Roots
by
metropolitan_culasi888@yahoo.com }
Before he got married , my late father, who hails from Batangas, was a traveling salesman,
peddling mosquito nets (kulambo) and statues of saints (santos) in the Visayas and Mindanao
during the 1930’s. When I was a little boy I often hear him singing this song dandansoy.
Here is his version of the song :
Dandansoy , I will leave you today
For Payao is far, far away
If you miss me then follow me there
In Payao, be together again.
I thought Dandansoy is one of the women in his life.
I was assigned in Binalabagan town for 2 years (Magallanes street near the church. 1987-1988) this is where I heard the Ilongo version of this song from an old folk when i was invited in Paglaum. Yes, some old folks in Binalbagan claimed that the composer is from this town and I do believe that.
We have visayan waray version of this song……..My late grandma from Tacloban Leyte used to sing this song to us if she is in her good mood and so my mom..My mom now in her late 80’s is still alive and well. I asked her about this song if this is really during pre-war era, she said this song is popular in Leyte during 1930’s although some lyrics she said is revised when she heard the “Asin” rendition of this song…..
Anybody knows the lyrics of Rosing? It’s another Ilonggo love song.
My last name was originally spelled APUHIN which is the spelling in Negros. When my father brought us to the USA, he changed the spelling as the “Americans” mispronounced the orignal spelling.
I have now lived in the states continuously since 1953, but I am always interested in reading of the happenings in Negros Occ. Dandansoy was the song my mother sang to me. Your discussion brought some “longings” to me. Guina hidlaw gid.
According to Augurio Abeto himself, he did not compose the song. It was a poet of Datu Sumakwil. And Dandansoy was not a boy. Dandansoy was a girl-sweetheart of that Sumakwil poet.
Payao is where the haciendas of the Arroyos are located, referring to the family of Miguel Arroyo, husband of the former President.
Gina pabugal ko gid nga ako gin bun-ag sang akon iloy sa Brgy. Payao, (Binalabagan) Binalbagan Neg. Occ. sang February 4, 1977
About the song Dandansoy who made by late Hon. Mayor Augurio Abeto, many popular singers who sing Dandansoy but some lyrics of the song is not original. If somebody looking for the original lyrics of the song Dandansoy just visit my hometown Brgy. Payao, Binalbagan Neg.Occ.
its really..touchable..bisan ano pada matabu..balikdon mugd gyapon lugar mu..kg kahidlawan gd ..
He might not composed the song but instead revived it, if this song is certainly composed originally in kinaray-a dialect.
I think this song is about Payao in Binalbagan not Banawe Rice terraces. There was a bus in 1960’s named Dandansoy going from Bacolod to Payao, the name came from the song. And I think it is really hiligaynon and I know Augorio Abeto as he is my maternal grandmother’s first cousin. That’s why I called him Lolo Goring when he visited us.
But I know more of his song “Dalawidaw” than this.
that bus named DANDANSOY was owned by the Teruel family here in Payao particularly the Late SB member Francisco Teruel. one of the prominent families living here in our place, that even until now they still known as DANDANSOY by many if you ask about the name, his wife tya Soleng (SOLEDAD),, wherein i dont know, if her name has something to do with the pre-war name of PAYAO which is SOLEDAD.
Payao, the term the locals use for the Banaue Rice Terraces, lyrics says ” Ugaling kon ikaw hidlawon, Ang payao imo lang lantawon.
Wow!!! very well said…. The discussion is so informative. Indeed, It’s helps to the student who have their literature and it’s nice to heard young people I mean new generation were also interested on this song than new song or song from other contry… add mo q ha..!!! heheh,, keep it up guys,,, goooo pinoy,,. mahalin natin ang sariling atin…
salamat gd sa dandansoy muh…u provided me d thing i nid d most….thanks!
wow.. you guys solved my queer problem about how to analyze this folk song.. i searched in the web a lot but i found nothing until w i saw this page,, very good discussions and information,, you do help students like me a lot! thank you soo much.. =) credits to the person behind this page/article (glady)
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Thanks to our commentators who shared a lot of wonderful thoughts and interpretations of Dandansoy.
hello.
pwd magtanong??
anu po ba ang scientific name ng TIGBAW GRASS??
na tinutukoy sa kanta….–kailangan po ksi namin sa aming proyek to,.,
pakisagot naman po..salamat!
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Very nice discussion guys i enjoyed reading them. Like the rest i too remembers the song very well. Sang elementary pa kami ini kinakanta sang mga lola namon sa amon. I remember going to Payao after our college graduation to visit our classmate’s place. Back then it never entered my mind ini gale ang lugar ginarefer sa kanta. Yep Payao is a ‘rich’ place. Kay may hacienda classmate namon didto. The song might be really be about the rich and poor falling in love. And in the end have to be separated because of status differences. Subo gid eh 🙂
Nice man tani kun ma appreciate man sg mga ulihing tubo ang mga kanta sg una. Daw mas masubo pa gid kun amo sina nga love affair. You and me against the world. lol!
Thank you for your interesting inputs Pip. The tigbaws now are having flowers and it’s already milling season so I guess that’s what the writer was referring to. It’s only now I learned that tigbaw’s flower is called bilaho. Bilaho is another term for a very unpleasant ear ailment.
After I attended a refresher tour of the Negros Museum, I learned that the song is actually from the play Dansoy and Rosing. ‘Ay, Rosing’ must probably be from that play also.
I suppose you mean bulaho instead of bilaho. Bulaho is the Hiligaynon term for ear drippings. Hehehehe
Yes, that’s what I meant. Thank you for the correction. 😀
Glad, you said in the song the singer bids farewell to a boy named Dandansoy? Dandansoy is actually a love song.
The song depicts a story of a woman who goes home to Payao, Binalbagan and tells her sweetheart Dandansoy to follow her in case he misses her. As the lyrics of the song goes (in English translation: Dandansoy, I will leave you, i’m going home to Payao, if ever you feel lonely, just look towards Payao. Dandansoy, if ever you decide to follow, don’t bring any water, if you get thirsty, make a well along the road.
The song speaks of a misunderstanding between lovers, lovers’ quarrel, so to speak, and so the girl goes home to Payao and challenges Dandansoy to follow her if he really loves her.
As to the claim that the song Dandansoy came from Antique and composed by an Antiquena, I think some people confused Dandansoy with a different song from Antique titled “Dandansoy, Inum Tuba Laloy” (Dandansoy, Drink Laloy’s Tuba).
It’s a love song indeed. But when she says, bayaan, to me that is also saying goodbye. She did not say she’s coming back to Dandansoy. She’s leaving him for some reason. Perhaps you’re correct that they’re having a lover’s quarrel. I find the melody of the song so sad though.
Somebody I know told me that he thinks it’s also evident in the song that the environment then was really clean. Imagine making a well along the road! He said probably there is a spring on the the roadside and you make a small well as a form of catchment.
Hello there. I’m not sure if my information is accurate but maybe this could help clarify a few things based on the discussion above.
I’m quite familiar with this because my Lola used to sing this wonderful song as a lullaby to my younger sister (although this is a sad love song). My father also plays this on the violin and he sort of explained to me what was it all about.
There’s a line from my Lola’s version which goes this way:
“Dandansoy bayaan ta ikaw
Mapauli ako sa Payao
Balikon ko ikaw ugaling
Kon mamilaho ang tigbaw
Dandansoy kon ikaw hidlawon
Maapas ka lang sa akon
Kon ikaw gani uhawon
Sa dalan, mag bubon-bubon”
Tigbaw is a tall grass which grows (mostly along the roadside). However at a certain period within the year, it grows some feathery panicles / flowers called “bilaho” which implies that the speaker might be referring to a certain season (sort of springtime). Loosely translated, the song says: Dandansoy, I bid you farewell for I am going home to Payao. But I will return to you, when the tall grasses grow their panicles. Dandansoy, if ever you’ll miss me, just follow me there. But if ever you get thirsty (along the way), just make a well on the road.
I suppose there is a deeper meaning than the literal translation of the song. “Make a well in the road” might be some sort of a figure of speech since the term used is “Bubon-bubon” which means “to make believe that there’s actually a well” and not “Bubon” which is the literal for “well”. Unfortunately though, I really do not know how to interpret it. Maybe the speaker is suggesting to Dandansoy that he should make the impossible possible if he wants to see her again before the springtime. There is actually a certain tension implied in the song. There might be some hindrance as to why they will not be able to meet again until springtime comes. Perhaps, they have a forbidden love affair and the only time they will see each other again is the fact that the girl will have to return to Dandansoy’s place.
If you’ll do further research, possibly the name of the girl singing is Rosing and there’s actually a Hiligaynon song entitled ‘Ay, Rosing’ which is also a “waltzy” type of song similar to Dandansoy.
The story that I know of is that Rosing is from a wealthy family and Dandansoy is a poor peasant and they actually had a romantic relationship. The discussion I had with my father was that Rosing is from Payao (an old settlement in Binalbagan, Negros which is actually home to the originally rich families) and that Dandansoy is from Isabela. The road from Isabela to Binalbagan until now is paved with tall grasses. There is a certain time of the year when rich families flock to Isabela (for vacations, holidays, probably the holy week, or perhaps harvest)in the old days and they stay there for quite some time and then later return to their hometowns.
If you read the lyrics of the song again and again, it might also imply that Dandansoy is so poor, he doesn’t have any form of transportation to go to Payao and that he really has to walk (unlike Rosing). Before the tigbaws grow their bilahos, and the weather is so hot the tigbaws barely survive, you will indeed get thirsty along the road.
hello, i hailed from payao since birth (late 60s), but i never heared this story, there were some similars stories regarding how our place got a name which linked to the topic regarding who really composed the song DANDANSOY,. i studied my kindergarteen school in the town of binalbagan under sis. trinidad then continue my primary school in BCC, and was been a classmate of christian canteller son of Hon. Blanqueta Canteller, who happens to be a daughter of , Hon. late Augorio Abeto. christian,, i remembered telling me his grandad composed the song DALAWIDAW,, but never recalled telling me about DANDANSOY though he knows this is the place where i live, (and as a young child then, didnt even care), only it was being told to us during high school days here in payao,,as a part of our english literature here in San Blas Academy to tell stories about how payao got its name. which i heared a lot from my classmates and some similar stories like yours. Until this present modern time that internet connection is so easy to have, i was able to read more stories about my place, and until lately i joined in a certain group of my family/clan in facebook. this is where i was able to learn more about “DANDANSOY”. Our place Payao got its name after the war,, my mother told me that during her time this place was known as “SOLEDAD”(this is still the name use to locate in google map or encarta). If the late Hon. Augorio Abeto did composed the song Dandansoy, then there must be a fact or proofs just like what we have in the song DALAWIDAW,,more of these, according to most of original payaonons, the early settlers of Payao were mostly from, GUIMBAL, TIGBAUAN, and “ANTIQUE were sacadas” came from, and as far as my mother had said, some of people from Antique came here during the reaping season of rice, until some decided to live here while others got married here. My late Grandfather was born in Culasi Antique, (but i dont know alot of his stories). as a confused person, i rather believe the stories that, the said song was originally composed in Antique (and might be revived by the late Hon.Augorio Abeto) for as we all know that mostly of our folksongs were all made for fun and never been documented properly wherein the people who really made this, never realized that the songs they made could be such popular and build confusions to the late generations of how or where this song originally came from. for me, i would stay believing this song DANDANSOY was composed by the late Fotunata Magsipoc Ledesma, for the clans and the later families are claiming too,(based on my opinion,,and others can have theirs too) and until others could provide proof that the said song belongs to them.(Payao or Payag is the same as far as i know in Antique and Aklan where the cradle of civilazation of Western Visayas starts).-JMJ-
my mother is from payao binalbagan, I remember she told me Dandansoy is drunkard man thats why her wife want to leave him. going back to payao..
The song dandansoy is not a full story.
the word used was hilagaynon word.
ilonggo is ethically from hiligaynon but there is some word difference and some word ilonggo couldn’t understand. the original ilonggo is from iloilo but original hiligaynon is from negros 😁
The other song is ‘Condansoy’ not Dandansoy.
Condansoy, inum tuba laloy
Dili komo inum
Tuba, pait, aslom
Ang tuba sa baybay
Patente mo anay
Talaksan nga diutay
Nga may laway
Sorry about my bisaya
tnx for the infos… i really need this one.. i have a report tomorrow
regarding this ilonggo folk song..
hmm just wanna aDD that i’m studying at CHMSC nosof
located here at Binalbagan.. This School was founded by Mr. Augurio Abeto,
the said Composer of ths folk song…
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We’re glad to help. 😀 Thanks for that additional info.
kadtuan mo kag storyahun si sir Abeto kay grandson ina sya ni Hon. Augurio Abeto. BSF Tech. Batch 2007
She probably has. Even Nora Aunor has her own version of Dandansoy.
There’s this rumor that even Imelda Marcos sang this song way back …
Where can I find all Hiligaynon songs in CD?
I’m not sure if they have that at the CD stores. I’ll ask around.
hello glad, i have a compilation of ilonggo/hiligaynon songs..remember my program? tatak negrense..hehehe. anyway, i’ll upload details of my radio magazine program and my profile kung okey lang..keep you posted. thanks
that’s good ms. chon! basi pwede ta na i-share diri? 😀