
Silvio Rodríguez
Canción del trovador errante lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1996
- Length
- 3:16
Un trovador errante
A wandering troubadour
Sombra por caminos sin alas
Shadow along wingless paths
Mis riquezas fueron aquellos sitios
My riches were those places
Donde aprendían mis canciones
Where my songs were learned
Quienes me las mostraban
Those who showed them to me
Vagabundos alrededor de sus hogueras
Vagabonds around their bonfires
Iluminaciones de cirqueros y perros
Illuminations of circus folk and dogs
Donde me convertía en una chispa transitoria
Where I became a transient spark
Disuelta en las remotas
Dissolved in the distant
Antífonas que saben las cigarras
Antiphons that the cicadas know
Mi patria era la intemperie
My homeland was the open air
Los acosados campos de clorofila elemental
The harried fields of elemental chlorophyll
Y fauna en eclosión, pero también era ceniza
And fauna in bloom, but it was also ash
Miércoles de lloviznas masticando
Drizzling Wednesdays chewing
La hogaza sucia y nutritiva que comparte
The dirty and nourishing loaf that shares
El proscrito ordinario
The ordinary outcast
Risueño y colosal
Cheerful and colossal
Entre las tibias ocasionales
Among the occasional warm thighs
Piernas de un cisne amaestrado
Of a trained swan
Fui un trovador errante
I was a wandering troubadour
Y ahora, tras el paso del tiempo
And now, after the passage of time
Soy quien enciende las hogueras
I am the one who ignites the bonfires
Quien convoca luciérnagas
The one who summons fireflies
Y sabe el nombre de la chispa que salta
And knows the name of the spark that leaps
De la crepitación hacia la noche
From the crackling into the night
Cometa de un universo diminuto
Comet of a tiny universe
Donde mi mano es la de Dios
Where my hand is that of God
Quiero decir, la de un colosalmente viejo vagabundo
I mean, that of a colossal old wanderer
Con la mirada puesta en los senderos
With eyes fixed on the paths
Con la memoria abierta a la única riqueza que le espera
With memory open to the only wealth that awaits him
Susurraré mi historia a un trovador errante
I will whisper my story to a wandering troubadour
Sombra en busca de almas
A shadow in search of souls
Para que la reparta junto a los fuegos
So that he can share it by the fires
Ocasionales tibios que depara el camino
Occasional warmth that the journey brings
A todos quienes sueñan como un cisne salvaje
To all who dream like a wild swan
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Key vocabulary
- decir
- sayA2
- le
- Indirect object pronoun meaning “to him/to her/to you” (singular) or “to it” (in formal/impersonal uses), depending on context.A2
- errante
- wandering
- mis
- myA1
- canciones
- songsA2
- alrededor
- aroundA2
- cirqueros
- circusmen
- saben
- they knowA2
- intemperie
- exposure
- acosados
- harassed
About this song
Silvio Rodríguez is a Cuban singer-songwriter associated with nueva trova and nueva canción. He is known for politically charged, lyric-driven protest songs set against tender folk balladry, and for helping define the style that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.