Cuando Se Muere Un Cristiano

When a Christian dies
Death without warning
Comes on a black horse
Touches the shoulder and leaves.

When a poet dies
The sugar cane field sobs
The lapachos are left without light
And the spring without water.

When a friend dies
One wants to sing to them
And goes out to find words
That they will never find.

The words I search for
I don't think will come back
They have gone to Bellavista
And there they have started to cry.

What sorrow my forgetfulness has
That it can no longer forget
And a trembling song
Through the furrows they go
With the memory of Lucho
To the sky of Tucuman.