URGENT HELP ESSAY

Daniel Vigletti, “A Desalambrar” [Let’s tear down the fences]

From the album Canciones para mi America [Songs for My America], Uruguay, 1960s.

Yo pregunto a los presentes Si no se han puesto a pensar Que esta tierra es de nosotros Y no del que tenga mas

Yo pregunto si en la tierra Nunca habra pensado usted Que si las manos son nuestras Es nuestro lo que nos den

A desalambrar, a desalambrar Que la tierra es nuestra Es tuya y de aquel De Pedro y Maria De Juan y Jose

Si molesto con mi canto A alguno que ande por alli

Le aseguro que es un gringo O un dueno del Uruguay

A desalambrar, a desalambrar Que la tierra es nuestra Es tuya y de aqul De Pedro y Maria De Juan y Jose

A desalambrar, a desalambrar Que la tierra es nuestra Es tuya y de aquel De Pedro y Maria De Juan y Jose

I ask those present

if they haven't begun to think

that this land belongs to us

and not to the man who has most.

I ask if you never

would have thought of the land,

that if these hands are ours,

what they give us is ours.

 

Let’s tear down the fences,

The land is ours, yours, his,

Pedro and Maria's, Juan and Jose's.

 

If I annoy anyone with my song

someone that walks through here,

I assure you that he is a gringo

or an Uruguayan landlord.

 

Let’s tear down the fences

The land is ours, yours, his

Pedro and Maria's, Juan and Jose's

Let’s tear down the fences

The land is ours, yours, his

Pedro and Maria's, Juan and Jose's