Originally, it was a song titled "Canción al arbol del olvido" (Song of the Tree of Oblivion), set to a poem by the Uruguayan modern poet Fernán Silva Valdés. This "Milonga" is the instrumental version of that song, created for educational purposes for music beginners. Milonga refers to a regional music form that was once recited by payadores (gaucho minstrels) with a guitar in hand. Sung to a rhythm similar to the habanera, it expresses a man's poignant unrequited love: "To forget my feelings for you, I slept under the tree of oblivion, but when I awoke from my dream, what I remembered was vidalitay (meaning beloved woman). Because I forgot to forget you."