Si De Cantar Se Trata - Soledad

Con Vitillo y con Machaco

Yo aprendí la chacarera

La cantaba todo el día

Allá en Salta campo afuera

Andando por Payogasta

De changuito ya sabia

Que aunque nos llenen de gringos

A ellos no los cambiaría

Nos rodeaban las guitarras

Bombos y trajes de gauchos

Pucha, que lindo les quedan

A todos esos paisanos

Si ya tenes veinte años

Y no sabes decidirte

Venite para el folklore!

No hace falta que te invite!

Me duele si del folklore

Dicen que es cosa de viejos…

Si sos joven, prometeme

No aflojarle ni un momento

Me pareció haber oído

Decir que se esta acabando

Con tu mano y con la mía

Vamos a seguir tirando

Si cantando en las reuniones

Por ahí alguno se ríe…

No te aflijas, perdonalo

No conoce sus raíces

Si seguís con veinte años

Afinando una guitarra

Llevate todo el folklore

Por dondequiera que vayas

With Vitillo and with Machaco

I learned the chacarera

She sang it all day

There in Salta outside field

Walking through Payogasta

From changuito I already knew

That even if they fill us with gringos

I would not change them

We were surrounded by guitars

Drums and gaucho suits

Damn, how cute they are

To all those countrymen

If you are already twenty years old

And you don't know how to decide

Come for the folklore!

No need to invite you!

It hurts me if from folklore

They say it's an old thing...

If you are young, promise me

Do not loosen it for a moment

He seemed to have heard

Say it's over

With your hand and with mine

Let's keep pulling

Yes singing in meetings

Somebody laughs there...

Don't grieve, forgive him

He doesn't know his roots

If you are still twenty years old

tuning a guitar

Take all the folklore

wherever you go