El Coro Triste de Mi Canción
Ali Primera
The Sad Chorus of My Song
There are flowers and fresh water
In the windows
In case the song that left
With Rafucho would like to come back
The downtown streets
Wear new colonial outfits
While misery
Wears the same nightgown as yesterday
(background)
"What a sad chorus
The one in my song"
What a sad chorus
The one in my song
(spoken)
"The countryman's song
Stayed in the shiny hands
Of the sand men
While the cross of San Clemente
Dies of termite and sorrow
What a chorus, what a sad chorus
The one in my song
What a sad chorus
The one in my song
"What a sad chorus
The one in my song"
What a sad chorus
The one in my song"
If your streets were to tremble
At the pace of your people
Like the earth trembles
At the pace of the giant
Who reddens your houses
When he goes on a trip
What a sad chorus
The one in my song
"What a sad chorus
The one in my song"
What a sad chorus
The one in my song"
Where is the countryman
Who never seems to arrive
Where is the countryman
That we are waiting for
But in the meantime
They build palaces
One for the government
And the other archiepiscopal
But in the meantime
They build palaces
One for the government
And the other archiepiscopal
What a chorus, what a sad chorus
The one in my song
What a sad chorus
The one in my song
(spoken)
"The countryman's cry
Didn't get past the thicket
Where is the countryman
Who never seems to arrive
The cross of San Clemente
Dies of termite and sorrow"
