"Remember Me" is a key song from the 2017 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Coco.
Plot[]
The song is sung in two different styles during the film. The original version is a lullaby sung by Héctor to his daughter Coco as a toddler in a flashback and later by his great-great-grandson Miguel to Mamá Coco near the film's ending. The second version is in ranchero-style (an homage to the Mexican Corrido style folk ballad of the twenties and thirties) sung by Ernesto de la Cruz. An extended version is in a duet style performed by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade during the film's end credits.
Lyrics[]
- Film version
- End credits
- 2018 Oscars performance
Remember me
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember me
Don't let it make you cry
For even if I'm far away I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me
Though I have to travel far
Remember me
Each time you hear a sad guitar
Know that I'm with you the only way that I can be
Until you're in my arms again
Remember me
Other versions[]
- For the film's Spanish-language soundtrack, Mexican singer Carlos Rivera covered a Spanish version in mariachi pop style in an extended version; this version replaces the version sung by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade during the credits in the Spanish version of the film. This version was one of the most successful versions in the Spanish-speaking world.
- Also for said soundtrack, Natalia Lafourcade sang a solo version using the same tune from the Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade version; however, it is entirely sung in Spanish by Lafourcade.