Las estrellas
Rolando Alárcon
The stars
Stage song, collected by Blanca Hauser in Temuco
I was teaching a girl to sing,
and she gave me a kiss on each note.
She learned so much, she learned so much,
that she knew everything except singing.
She wanted to know the names of the stars,
and I asked for a kiss with each name.
What a night, what a night
when I invented a thousand names for each star.
But the night passed, dawn arrived,
the stars went away, she was left alone.
And she said to me, and she said to me:
