Si no fuera santiagueño

GM: Gerardo Masana
MM: Narrator, M. Mundstock
DR: Daniel Rabinovich
EA: Ernesto Acher
CN: Carlos Núñez Cortés
JM: Jorge Maronna
LP: Carlos López Puccio

MM: The folk dance "If I weren't from Santiago"
is also known as "Chacarera de Santiago",
since its author is Rudecindo Luis Santiago,
a notable student of Manuela.
The Teluric Ensemble of Les Luthiers performs
the Chacarera de Santiago, "If I weren't from Santiago".

DR: First!

JM: Boom boom, boom boom, boom boom boom, boom, boroboro

Boom boom, boom boom, boom boom boom, boom, boroboro

DR: When I dance the folk dance
raising dust,
I feel as if

CHORUS: I'm dancing the folk dance.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boroboro

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boroboro

DR: A Chinese girl rejected me
whom I followed with my Manchao;
I hadn't realized:

CHORUS: she was Mao's Chinese.

CN: They call me Santiagoan
because I was born in Santiago
JM: if I weren't from Santiago;

CHORUS: I would have been born in another place.

DR: Second!

JM: Drum, drum, drum drummmm

DR: Drum? Drum? Do you want the drum?
Don't you want the des...?
CN: What drum? No, he's not asking for the drum
DR: he said "drum, drum"
JM: he was singing...
GM: don't worry
DR: but you were singing a lyric that said "drum, drum"
GM: yes, but he doesn't want the..
CN: but, yes, but, even though he says it, it's not...
GM: he doesn't want it..he doesn't, he wants something else
CN: he wants..he's saying
a onomatopoeic phoneme...
DR: what?
GM: of course, of course...
CN: ..for example
DR: wait, let's agree:
did he say "drum drum"? or didn't he say 'drum'?
CN: he said "drum", we agree
JM: yes, but he was singing...it's in the score
LP: you're wrong
DR: look old man, if you want the drum, here's the drum
CN: but he doesn't want the drum, won't you understand?
GM: but he doesn't want the drum
DR: he said "drum drum"! I think he wants
the drum
JM: but he was singing!
CN: but he was singing... if the score shows
'drum'
DR: he's singing "drum drum", here's the drum
CN: but it's not about that, it's not about that
MM: what seemed to be that he had it
DR: drum, drum, he said
CN: enough!
DR: If you think my name is a drum...

CN: Third!

JM: Boom boom, boom boom, boom boom boom, boom, boroboro

Boom boom, boom boom, boom boom boom, boom, boroboro

DR: By the herdsman's bonfire
I don't know what's happening to me,
I feel a warmth inside

CHORUS: I think it's the embers.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boroboro

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boroboro

DR: When I left Santiago
I cried all the way
I cried because I had left

CHORUS: the whole way wet.

CN: They call me Santiagoan
because I was born in Santiago;
JM: if I weren't from Santiago

CHORUS: I would have been born in another place.