Canción para Carito

Mercedes Sosa
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Sentado solo

Sitting alone

En un banco en la ciudad

On a bench in the city

Con tu mirada

With your gaze

Recordando el litoral.

Remembering the coastline

Tu suerte quiso estar partida

Your fate wanted to be divided

Mitad verdad, mitad mentira

Half truth, half lie

Como esperanza

Like hope

De los pobres prometida.

Promised to the poor


Andando solo

Walking alone

Bajo la llovizna gris

Under the gray drizzle

Fingiendo duro

Pretending hard

Que tu vida fue de aqui

That your life was from here

Por que cambiaste un mar de gente

Because you exchanged a sea of people

Por donde gobierna la flor

Where the flower governs

Mira que el rio

See that the river

Nunca regalo el color.

Never gave away its color


Carito suelta tu pena

Carito, release your sorrow

Se hara diamante tu lagrima

Your tear will turn into diamond

Entre mis cuerdas

Among my strings

Carito suelta tu piedra

Carito, release your stone

Para volar como el zorzal en primavera.

To fly like the thrush in spring


En buenos aires

In Buenos Aires

Los zapatos son modernos

The shoes are modern

Pero no lucen

But they don't shine

Como en la plaza de un pueblo

Like in the square of a village

Deja que tu luz chiquitita

Let your tiny light

Hable en secreto a la cancion

Speak secretly to the song

Para que te acaricie

So that it caresses you

Un poco mas el sol.

A little more with the sun


Cualquier semilla

Any seed

Cuando es planta quiere ver

When it's a plant, wants to see

La misma estrella

The same star

De aquel atardecer

From that evening

Que la salvo del pico agudo

That saved it from the sharp beak

Refugiandola al oscuro

Sheltering it in the dark

De la gaviota arrasadora

From the sweeping seagull

De los surcos.

From the furrows


Carito yo soy tu amigo

Carito, I am your friend

Me ofrezco arbol para tu nido

I offer myself as a tree for your nest

Carito suelta tu canto

Carito, release your song

Que el abanico en mi acordeon

Because the fan in my accordion

Lo esta esperando.

Is waiting for it

Moderated by Alejandro López
Madrid, España August 20, 2024
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