La Paciencia Pobrecita
María Elena Walsh
Poor Patience
I feel like crying
Poor patience
That gave so much shelter to the world
Back in the dye
Strand by strand, day after day
Stretching on the loom
Grandma's Indian secrets
The America of memory
Women eternalize
Knot by knot, day after day
Cover me when I die
With a woven blanket
By my countrywomen
Don't end yet
Little angels of the guards
Oh, my mothers
Oh, my mothers
How can I not honor
Items acquired with pain
I want to ask for forgiveness
Because I put them on
Thread by thread, day after day
Forgive me for paying so poorly
And for those who say
That a poor woman doesn't know
How to act wisely
Knot by knot, day after day
Cover me when I die
With a woven blanket
By my countrywomen
Don't end yet
Little angels of the guards
Oh, my mothers
Oh, my mothers
