The song “La Bamba”, plays at many Latin American parties and festivals.  It plays in Quinteros in Mexico and the song itself is synonymous with the Mexican Indian identity and the Catholic church. In Spanish which is the romantic language closest to Latin and the classic biblical teachings, la Bamba means “the dance”.   Folklore has it that the most beautiful women in the world are Spanish or live in Spain, and the maker shows man the meaning of his word through his actions. 

When children start to become adults, in puberty, with their hormones raging, the two sexes start to notice each other in other ways.  Sometimes, although the effect is very rare, two adolescents, notice each other, lock eyes and walk toward each other.  Sometimes if the chemistry is right, they will hold hands and walk to a safe place, lock themselves in and make a child.   Usually, the parents of the adolescents who make the child, place this child in an orphanage because the parents are either too young or not rich enough to raise the child on their own.   The child created by these two people is a gift of God to Mankind and destined to be someone very special.   This act of La Bamba loosely translates into “true love.”   La Bamba is true love at its most beautiful and special way. 

If a human being finds someone to love them, they shouldn’t let it go because the maker usually doesn’t give second chances.   “If you find someone to love you, don’t ever let them go.”  This is La Bamba, a condition that everyone sings about, craves about, lies about, but refuse to engage to their own detriment. La Bamba is beauty in an almost indescribable way and being that can not be created artificially, or bought, or sold, or stolen, because it occurs naturally under the sun.

Whether Pablo Neruda or the singer Richie Valens thought up the concept doesn’t matter.  La Bamba is here, it is real and it is the thing everyone searches for but few every achieve, so let us sing about it whenever we can to remind ourselves that we are human and this is the thing that is worth more than a throne made of gold.  The most important qualities of life in this existence are love and love is unobtainable at any price.   The English king who said, “a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse” is talking about La Bamba, and La Bamba is elusive like large puma hiding in the mountains.  John Lennon probably said it best: 

CAN’T BUY ME LOVE

EVERYBODY TELLS ME SO

CAN’T BUY ME LOVE

NO, NO NO, NO.  

La Bamba is the first derivation of true love.  Minimums and Maximums.