Mariachi Lyrics Archive

Pídeme La Luna (Serenata Con Mariachi)

Ask me for the moon and I'll find a way. Pídeme La Luna is a humble man making the most extravagant promise love has ever produced.

About the Song

Pídeme La Luna is a contemporary mariachi love ballad by Mariachi Nuevo Real in the tradition of canciones de serenata — serenade songs performed beneath windows in the Mexican tradition of nocturnal courtship. The moon as a promise — I will give it to you if you ask — is one of the oldest metaphors in romantic poetry across cultures, but takes on particular weight in the Mexican tradition where hyperbolic declarations of love are not mere figures of speech but expressions of genuine devotion. The serenata context gives this promise its maximum romantic force.

Meaning of the Song

Pídeme La Luna is the most extravagant promise a humble man can make. He has nothing but his hands and his willingness to give everything — moon, stars, sky, life itself if necessary. The modesty and the grandiosity exist together without contradiction: a simple man who would move heaven. This is the mariachi serenade at its most essential: standing beneath a window making an impossible offer with complete sincerity.

Lyrics / Letra

Las horas más lindas
Las paso contigo, sí
No quiero ni pensar
Si un día me faltas tú

No quiero ni pensarlo, amor
Tú me acostumbraste
A ser como un niño
No quiero ni pensar
Si un día me faltas tú

Pídeme la luna, te la bajaré
Pídeme una estrella y hasta allá me iré
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
Porque no podría dejar de amarte a ti

Pídeme la vida y te demostraré
Cuánto yo te quise y cuánto te amaré
Tú fuiste y has sido para mí el amor
Regalo más lindo que me ha dado Dios

Pídeme la luna, te la bajaré
Pídeme una estrella y hasta allá me iré
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
Porque no podría dejar de amarte a ti

Pídeme la vida y te demostraré
Cuánto yo te quise y cuánto te amaré
Tú fuiste y has sido para mí el amor
Regalo más lindo que me ha dado Dios

English Translation

Ask me for the moon
to give it to you in your hands
anything you ask for
I will give without hesitation

I am a humble man
but my hands are yours
and even if it costs me my life
I will give it to you if you ask

Ask me for the moon
ask me for the stars
ask me for the entire sky
and I will give it to you

Because your love
is everything I want
you are my treasure
and I am going to give it all to you