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Related: About this forumCaetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma
--Spanish---
Dicen que por las noches
no más se le iba en puro llorar;
dicen que no comía,
no más se le iba en puro tomar.
Juran que el mismo cielo
se estremecía al oír su llanto,
cómo sufriá por ella,
y hasta en su muerte la fue llamando.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay cantaba,
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay gemía.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay cantaba,
de pasión mortal moría.
Que una paloma triste
muy de mañana le va a cantar,
a la casita sola
con sus puertitas de par en par.
Juran que esa paloma
no es otra cosa más que su alma,
que todavía la espera
a que regrese la desdichada.
Cucurrucucú paloma,
cucurrucucú no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma,
¿qué van a saber de amores?
-- English-----
They say through every nighttime
he was purely a flowing river of tears;
they say he wasnt eating,
but drinking to drown out the pain that so sears.
They swear that even the night skies
shudder with pity to his sad wails and sharp cries,
for her, oh he was suffering,
and vainly calls out past the death where she now lies.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay hes singing,
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay hes moaning.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, hes singing,
and from mortal passion dying.
A Mourning Dove sad and lonesome
at dawn its song will be cooed for your ears,
the cottage still is waiting
with wide open doors emptying fears.
They swear that Mourning Dove cooing
is surely the very soul of your darling,
that is still so sweetly awaiting
her return to his love never-ending.
Cucurrucucú paloma,
cucurrucucú no crying.
The stones we walk on, paloma,
will never know about our loving.
Ponietz
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|JHan
(10,173 posts)the best description I've ever read "Shy, yet provocative; sentimental, yet cerebral, Brazil's Caetano Veloso makes music that is both simple and sophisticated; usually lovely and occasionally harsh. In short, he is impossible to summarize easily"
secondwind
(16,903 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,189 posts)I never heard this man before.
Those are impressive pipes he has