Como Urpilita Perdida

Mercedes Sosa
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Ahi anda con su huahuita

There she goes with her little child

Entre sus brazos tibios, dormida

In her warm arms, asleep

Y ella la mira asustada

And she looks at her, frightened

Como urpilita perdida.

Like a lost hummingbird


Doncella, luz de los montes

Maiden, light of the mountains

Pureza criolla de antiguos lares

Criollo purity from ancient homelands

Sobre la arborea corona

Upon the arboreal crown

La saludan los zorzales.

The thrushes greet her


Llevando su buena andanza

Taking her good fortune

A dios le ruega por sus dolores

She prays to God for her sorrows

Sin maldecir a aquel hombre

Without cursing that man

Que le mintio en los amores

Who lied to her in love


En el cofre de sus brazos

In the chest of her arms

Le esta temblando una nueva vida

A new life is trembling

Y ella la mira asustada como urpilita perdida.

And she looks at her, frightened, like a lost hummingbird


Recuerda la fiesta criolla

She remembers the folk festival

Alla en los ranchos de monte adentro

There in the huts deep in the woods

Oyo alegres chacareras

She heard joyful chacareras

Y vidalas con lamentos.

And vidalas with laments


Tal vez fuera aquella zamba

Maybe it was that zamba

Quiza el aroma de los tunales

Perhaps the aroma of the prickly pear

Tal vez la luz de aquel cielo

Perhaps the light of that sky

Alunando en los sunchales.

Shining on the sunchales


Desde el camino del rio

From the river's path

Un viento macho quebro las puertas

A strong wind broke the doors

Como para darse el gusto

As if to indulge

De verlas por siempre abiertas.

In seeing them forever open

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Guatemala City, Guatemala March 28, 2025
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