Tamborero

Listen to the drummer play
Full moon of leather is the drumhead
Listen to the drummer play
Full moon of leather is the drumhead

The father of the drummer's father
Is telling his grandson
The story of that drum
As his grandfather told his father
Who they say had told him, his older brother

The story that is long and sometimes sad
Endures if it is passed down in each generation
The story that is not told in words
I won't tell it either
In this song

So listen to the drummer play
Full moon of leather is the drumhead
Listen to the drummer play
Full moon of leather is the drumhead

The story that one day the drummer
Playing the drum also tells
To his eldest son
The story instead of ones and zeros
Is told in wood and leather stretched by the heat

And so it goes from mouth to mouth
From hand to hand that plays
From heart to heart
The story that sounds is that of the candombe
And if you wonder where the tradition is alive:

Listen to the drummer play
Full moon of leather is the drumhead
Listen to the drummer play
Full moon of leather is the drumhead