Below is the lyrics of the song La Carta , artist - Victor Jara with translation
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Victor Jara
Me mandaron una carta
Por el correo templano
Y en esta carta me dice
Que cayó prieso mi hermano
Así lo tema con grillos
Por las calles lo arrastraron, si
La carta dice el motivo
Que ha cometido Roberto
Haber apoyado el paro
Que ya se habia resuelto
Si caso esto és el motivo
Presa también voy sargiento, si
Yo que me encuentro tán lejo
Esperando la noticia
Me viene decir en la carta
Que en mi patria no hay justicia
Los hambrientos piden el pan
No molejan a la milicia, si
Esta manera pomposa
Queren consiervar su aciento
Los de abanicos y de flaque
Si tiener merecimiento
Van y volver a la iglesia
Y olvidan los mandamientos, si
Habrase visto la insolecia
Barbárie y alevosía
De apresentar el trabuco
Y matar a sangre fría
Aquél piensar no tiene
Con las dos manos vacía, si
La carta que ha recebido
Me pide contestación
Yo pido que se propaguen
Por toda la población
Que León és un sanguinário
En toda la generación, si
Por suerte tengo guitarra
Para llorar mí dolor
También tengo nueve hermanos
Fuera de él que se engrilló
Todos son comunistas
Con el favor de mí Diós, si
they sent me a letter
by early mail
And in this letter he tells me
That my brother fell prisoner
So I fear it with crickets
Through the streets they dragged him, yeah
The letter says the reason
What has Robert done?
Having supported the strike
That had already been resolved
If this is the reason
Dam I'm also sergeant, yes
I am so far away
waiting for the news
It comes to tell me in the letter
That in my country there is no justice
The hungry ask for bread
They don't bother the militia, yeah
this pompous way
They want to keep their seat
Those with fans and flaque
If you deserve
They go and go back to church
And they forget the commandments, yeah
You would have seen the insolence
Barbarism and treachery
To present the blunderbuss
And kill in cold blood
That thinking does not have
With both hands empty, yes
The letter that he has received
ask me for a reply
I ask that they spread
for the entire population
That León is a bloodthirsty
In the whole generation, yeah
Luckily I have a guitar
to cry my pain
I also have nine brothers
Outside of him who shackled
they are all communists
With the favor of my God, yes
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