La guitarra
La guitarra
is based on the poem by Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet living at the time of the Franco regime who was eventually killed by that regime.
In this music the guitar personalizes the suffering Spanish people that will always keep on fighting for its freedom and in the end will not be silenced by the regime.
The guitar will never stop playing, it is impossible to hush it.
La guitarra
Empieza el llanto de la guitarra.
Se rompen las copas de la madrugada.
Empieza el llanto de la guitarra.
Es inútil callarla.
Es imposible callarla.
Llora monótona
como llora el agua,
como llora el viento sobre la nevada.
Es imposible callarla.
Llora por cosas lejanas.
Arena del Sur caliente
que pide camelias blancas.
Llora flecha sin blanco,
la tarde sin mañana,
y el primer pájaro muerto
sobre la rama.
¡Oh guitarra!
Corazón malherido por cinco espadas.
The guitar
Now starts the weeping of the guitar
with the broken glass of dawn.
The weeping of the guitar begins.
No use hushing it.
Impossible to stop it.
It cries monotonously
as cries the water,
as cries the wind over the snow wastes.
Impossible to hush.
It cries for things far away.
Sand of the warm South
yearning for white camelias
It cries arrow without aim
evening without the morrow,
and the first dead bird
in the branch.
Oh guitar!
Heart badly wounded by five swords.