La Carta - Violeta Parra

La Carta - Violeta Parra

  • Year of release: 2011
  • Language: Spanish
  • Duration: 2:54

Below is the lyrics of the song La Carta , artist - Violeta Parra with translation

Lyrics " La Carta "

Original text with translation

La Carta

Violeta Parra

Original text

Me mandaron una carta

Por el correo temprano

En esa carta me dicen

Que cayó preso mi hermano

Y sin compasión, con grillos

Por la calle lo arrastraron, sí

La carta dice el motivo

De haber prendido a roberto

Haber apoyado el paro

Que ya se había resuelto

Si acaso esto es un motivo

Presa voy también, sargento, si

Yo que me encuentro tan lejos

Esperando una noticia

Me viene a decir la carta

Que en mi patria no hay justicia

Los hambrientos piden pan

Plomo les da la milicia, sí

De esta manera pomposa

Quieren conservar su asiento

Los de abanico y de frac

Sin tener merecimiento

Van y vienen de la iglesia

Y olvidan los mandamientos, sí

Habrase visto insolencia

Barbarie y alevosía

De presentar el trabuco

Y matar a sangre fría

A quien defensa no tiene

Con las dos manos vacías, si

La carta que he recibido

Me pide contestación

Yo pido que se propale

Por toda la población

Que el «león» es un sanguinario

En toda generación, sí

Por suerte tengo guitarra

Para llorar mi dolor

También tengo nueve hermanos

Fuera del que se engrilló

Los nueve son comunistas

Con el favor de mi dios, sí

Song translation

they sent me a letter

by early mail

In that letter they tell me

That my brother fell prisoner

And without mercy, with shackles

Down the street they dragged him, yeah

The letter says the reason

of having caught roberto

Having supported the strike

That had already been resolved

If this is a reason

Dam I go too, sergeant, yes

I am so far away

waiting for a news

The letter comes to tell me

That in my country there is no justice

The hungry ask for bread

Lead gives them the militia, yes

in this pompous way

They want to keep their seat

Those of fan and tailcoat

having no merit

They come and go from the church

And they forget the commandments, yeah

You would have seen insolence

Barbarism and treachery

To present the blunderbuss

And kill in cold blood

To whom defense does not have

With both empty hands, yes

The letter that I have received

ask me for a reply

I ask that it spread

for the entire population

That the "lion" is a bloodthirsty

In every generation, yeah

Luckily I have a guitar

to cry my pain

I also have nine brothers

Out of which he shackled

all nine are communists

With the favor of my god, yes

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