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Alberto Ginastera – Five Popular Songs |
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1.CHACARERA A mí me gustan las ñatas Y una ñata me ha tocado Ñato será el casamiento Y más ñato el resultado. Cuando canto chacareras Me dan ganas de llorar Porque se me representa Catamarca y Tuoumán.
2. TRISTE Ah! Debajo de un limón verde Donde el agua no corría Entregué mi corazón A quien no lo merecía. Ah! Triste es el día sin sol Triste es la noche sin luna Pero más triste es querer Sin esperanza ninguna. Ah!
3. ZAMBA Hasta las piedras del cerro Y las arenas del mar Me dicen que no te quiera Y no te puedo olvidar. Si el corazón me has robado El tuyo me lo has de dar El que lleva cosa ajena Con lo suyo ha de pagar. Ay!
4. ARRORRO Arrorró mi nene, Arrorró mi sol, Arrorró pedazo De mi corazón. Este nene lindo Se quiere dormir Y el pícaro sueño No quiere venir
5. GATO El gato de mi casa es muy gauchito Pero cuando lo bailan Zapateadito. Guitarrita de pino cuerdas de alambre. Tanto quiero a las chicas, Digo, como a las grandes. Esa moza que baila Mucho la quiero Pero no para hermana Que hermana tengo. Que hermana tengo Si, pónte al frente Aunque no sea tu dueño, Digo, me gusta verte. |
1. CHACARERA I think the girl that I marry will have a turned-up nose, maybe. After the wedding we hope we may have a turned-up nose baby. I think the girl that I marry will have a turned-up nose, maybe. When I sing the chacareras then my eyelids overflow The melody still reminds me of the land I used to know. 2. TRISTE Ah! Beside this pool of cool water where the lime-tree’s branches shade me here my heart I gave away to a girl who has betrayed me. Ah! Sad is a day without sun, or night with no moon above you, but it is sadder to love if you have no one to love you. Ah!
3. ZAMBA Though all the stones of the mountains and all the sands of the sea tell me it’s foolish to love you, what does that matter to me? Now that my heart you have stolen, you I must gently remind: it is the law that a robber must repay his theft in kind. Ay!
4. ARRORRO Go to sleep, my baby; sleep my shining sun, you are all my treasures gathered into one. Such a drowsy baby his dark eyes should close or sleep will not bring lovely dreams and repose. [humming] You are all my treasures gathered into one.
I have a cat in my house who’s very handsome, I have a cat in my house who’s very handsome Play a ‘ranchero’ or ‘gato’ he loves to dance them. My guitar makes sweet music, though it’s a small one. What a beautiful girl is that one, the dark and tall one. If she had only let me, I would have kissed her If she had only let me, I would have kissed her not as I’d kiss my mother, not as my sister. Sisters I have at home who don’t go dancing. Dance with me once more, my dark-eyed darling, you are entrancing |