♫ Kiko
is the ninth album by the Mexican American rock group Los Lobos. A year later, Los
Lobos performed a spoof of their song "Kiko and the Lavender Moon" known as "Elmo and the
Lavender Moon" on the PBS series Sesame Street. Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award winning American
rock band from East Los Angeles,
California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex - Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R & B, blues,
brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and nortentos. They gained international
stardom in 1987, when their cover version of Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" topped the charts in the U.S.,
the UK and several other countries. In 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.
Lyrics
Kiko and the lavender moon
Out playing - makes believe
Nobody can see
And then he waits
And then he fakes
And then he bends
And then he shakes
He plays and plays
Still playing till he
Goes off to sleep
Kiko and the lavender moon
Out dancing making faces at
A big black cat
And then he flies
Up to the wall
Stands on one foot
Doesn't even fall
Dance and dance
Still dancing till
He goes off to sleep
He always sleeps
Till the sun goes down
He never wakes
Till no one's around
He never stops
Can't catch his breath
It's always there
Scares him to death
