Victor Jara-Vamos Con Ancho Camino

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(one of the last songs Victor recorded...it aired at the end of the concert he performed on Peruvian television less than two months before he was killed by Nixon and Kissinger's fascist coup in Chile. I post it today as a symbol of hope...of the power of beauty and defiance and love to defy even death.)

Spanish lyrics:

Ven, ven, conmigo ven,
ven, ven, conmigo ven.
Vamos por ancho camino,
nacerá un nuevo destino, ven.

Ven, ven, conmigo ven,
ven, ven, conmigo ven.
al corazón de la tierra
germinaremos con ella, ven.

El odio quedo atrás
no vuelvas nunca,
sigue hacia el mar
tu canto es río, sol y viento
pájaro que anuncia la paz.

Amigo tu hijo va,
hermano tu madre va,
van por el ancho camino
van galopando en el trigo, van

Ven, ven, conmigo ven,
ven, ven, conmigo ven.
Llegó la hora del viento
reventando los silencios, ven.



English translation(adapted from the Bing Translator version-if anyone can supply a better English rendition, please post it in the thread below. Gracias):




Come, come with me, come
come, come, come with me.
We are on the wide path
to a destination still to be born.

Come, come with me come,
come, come, come with me come.
in the heart of the soil
We will be the seeds of the future.

We leave hatred behind, as
We move towards the sea
your song is the river, the sun, and the wind,
and a bird whose song proclaims peace.

Friend your child goes with us
brother your mother goes with us too.
Go with us down the wide path
Where through fields of grain we will run.

Come, come with me come,
come, come, come with me come.
Now the wind
bursts through the silence.