Si Se Calla el Cantor - Mercedes Sosa

Si se calla el cantor calla la vida

Porque la vida, la vida misma es todo un canto

Si se calla el cantor, muere de espanto

La esperanza, la luz y la alegría

Si se calla el cantor se quedan solos

Los humildes gorriones de los diarios

Los obreros del puerto se persignan

Quién habrá de luchar por su salario

Si se calla el cantor muere la rosa

De que sirve la rosa sin el canto

Debe el canto ser luz sobre los campos

Iluminando siempre a los de abajo

Que no calle el cantor porque el silencio

Cobarde apaña la maldad que oprime

No saben los cantores de agachadas

No callarán jamás de frente al crimén

Si se calla el cantor… calla la vida

If the singer is silent, life is silent

Because life, life itself is all a song

If the singer is silent, he dies of fright

The hope, the light and the joy

If the singer is silent they are left alone

The humble sparrows of the newspapers

The port workers cross themselves

Who will fight for his salary

If the singer is silent, the rose dies

What good is the rose without the song

Must the song be light over the fields

Always lighting up those below

Let the singer not be silent because the silence

Coward manages the evil that oppresses

The singers don't know about crouching

They will never be silent in the face of crime

If the singer is silent... life is silent