Entre a Mi Pago Sin Golpear
Mercedes Sosa
Enter My Homeland Without Knocking
It was a lot of suffering
Walking far from my homeland,
Running so much
To get nowhere
And I was where I was born
What I was looking for was right there.
Friendship is gold
That can't be bought or sold
It's only given
When it's felt in the heart
It's not something to be used
Just when it's convenient.
That's how my countrymen
Give in friendship
Their hands are
Bread, meat, and mate tea
And the flower of humility
Tends to perfume their ranch.
Life has been lent to me
And I have to give it back
When the creator
Calls me for the delivery
May my bones, skin, and salt
Enrich my native soil.
The moon is a lump that shines with borrowed light
Only to the singer
Who sings soulful verses
The sun that climbs through his voice
Explodes in his heart.
Singer to sing
If your verses say nothing;
Oh! why
Would you silence the silence;
If silence is a singer
Full of spirits in the voice.
My town is a singer
That sings the chacarera
It won't sing
What it doesn't deeply feel
When you want to listen
Enter my homeland without knocking.
Life has been lent to me
And I have to give it back
When the creator
Calls me for the delivery
May my bones, skin, and salt
Enrich my native soil.
