The song "Ang Pipit" describes a pipit bird whose wing was injured by a stone thrown by a man. Unable to fly, the injured pipit cries out to the cruel man that if it dies, another pipit will cry in its place. The song was composed by famous Filipino composer Levi Celerio and uses the metaphor of the injured pipit to represent the struggles faced by Filipinos under oppression.

2. Ang Pipit
The song is about a pipit whose wing was
injured by a stone thrown by a man. The little
bird was hurt so badly that it couldn't fly, and
fell, but then like a human being said to the
man: ”Oh cruel man, your heart has no pity. If I
die, there's a pipit bird who will cry.”

3. Ang Pipit
Ang Pipit is a popular filipino folk
song, filipino didn’t realize that it is an
English word to that’s why they translate
it into “My Sparrow”.

4. Composer of ang Pipit

5. Levi Celerio
• Si Levi Celerio (Abril 30, 1912 – Abril 2, 2002)
ay isang Pilipinong kompositor. Siya ay
nakasulat ng mahigit na 4,000 mga awiting
Pilipino .Siya ay ipinanganak
noong 1912 sa Tondo, Maynila bayan

6. My Interpretation
• Ang Pipit is a Filipino song which has been sung by Levi Celerio.
The song is actually a cry of hope, sense of freedom of Filipinos.
The singer has given resemblance of the context to a Pipit which
is a small bird. Just like a bird that is bound in the cage, there
are Filipinos that are bound with the chains of slavery. They
don’t live a free life and cannot do what they want or how they
want. So the song is basically a voice of one such Filipino

7. The Difference
Ang Pipit
The pipit loves to sing a song and
its has a broken wings that’s why the
pipit can’t fly anymore due to fracture.
Natural Bird
The natural bird can fly everywhere
while the pipit has a small and broken
wings so that the natural bird can fly
all over the place.

8. The Similarities
The pipit and a natural bird has the
ability to reproduce in it’s own.

9. - The End…