La Arenosa

Mercedes Sosa
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Arenosa, arenosita

Arenosa, arenosita

Mi tierra cafayateña

My coffee-colored land

El que bebe de su vino

He who drinks its wine

Gana sueño y pierde pena.

Gains sleep and loses sorrow.


El agua de calchaqui

The water of Calchaquí

Padre de todas las siembras

Father of all sowings

Cuando uno se va y no vuelve

When one leaves and doesn't return

Canta llorando y se aleja.

Sings crying and moves away.


Arena, arenita

Sand, little sandy one

Arena, tapa mi huella

Sand, cover my footprint

Para que en las vendimias

So that in the grape harvests

Mi vida yo vuelva a verla.

My life, I see her again.


Luna de los medanales

Moon of the Medanales

Lunita cafayateña

Little moon of Cafayate

Luna de arena morena

Moon of dark sand

En carnavales de ausencia.

In carnivals of absence.


Deja que beba en tu vino

Let me drink from your wine

La savia cafayateña

The sap of Cafayate

Y que me pierda en la cueca

And let me get lost in the cueca

Cantando antes que me muera.

Singing before I die.

Arena, arenita

Sand, little sandy one

Arena, tapa mi huella

Sand, cover my footprint

Para que en las vendimias

So that in the grape harvests

Mi vida yo vuelva a verla.

My life, I see her again.

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Lima, Perú August 12, 2024
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