Spainish
Name:
Palomita mía
Translater:
Unknown
Lyric
Quejas de un pasado, guitarrero ciego
Vidalita triste, recuerdos de amor,
Sombras en las calles, sombras en el cielo
Canto que se apaga como una oración.
Trenzas renegridas, latir de emociones,
Taperita y lluvia, llorando un adiós,
Y hoy un pobre ciego, ya sin ilusiones
Canta su tristeza con esta canción:
Palomita mía,
Vidalita
Dónde está tu nido...
Y a los ojos del ciego se asoma
Vieja pena que lo hace llorar.
Evocando a la blanca paloma
Que volara de su palomar.
Palomita mía,
Vidalita
Dónde está tu nido...
Ríe la cigarra de la vida alegre
Sólo la guitarra parece entender,
A esa mano santa que busca en sus notas
Las palabras rotas de aquella mujer.
Trenzas renegridas, latir de emociones
Taperita y lluvia, llorando un adiós,
Sombras en las calles, sombras en el cielo,
Canto que se apaga con voz de dolor.
Music: Carlos Viván
Lyrics: Horacio Sanguinetti
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English
Name:
My Litte Dove
Translater:
Unknown
Lyric
Laments of a past, a blind guitar player,
a sad poem*, memories of love
shadows in the street, shadows in the sky,
a song that fades away like a prayer.
Black coloured locks, the throbbing of emotions,
a little shack and rain, crying a goodbye,
and today a poor, blind man, now without any hope
sings his sadness with this song.
My little dove,
poem,
where is your nest?
And in the eyes of the blind man appears
an old pain that makes himm weep.
Recalling the white dove
that flew away from its dovecote.
My little dove,
poem,
where is your nest?
The cicada with its happy life is laughing,
only the guitar seems to understand,
that blessed hand that seeks in its notes
the broken promises of that woman.
Black coloured locks, the throbbing of emotions,
a little shack and rain, crying a goodbye,
shadows in the street, shadows in the sky,
singing that breaks out with a voice of sorrow.
*vidalita - a particular kind of Argentine folk poem or song accompanied by a guitar. Also, a young Casanova character.
English translation by Paul Bottomer ©