Silvio Rodríguez
Canción para mi soldado lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 3:22
Si caigo en el camino hagan cantar mi fusil
If I fall on the road, let my rifle sing
Y ensánchenle su destino porque no debe morir
And widen its destiny, for it must not die
Si caigo en el camino como puede suceder
If I fall on the road, as might happen
Que siga el canto mi amigo cumpliendo con su deber
Let my friend keep singing, fulfilling his duty
La muerte pone un silbido en los oídos del hombre
Death puts a whistle in the ears of man
Canto que no tiene nombre canción que busca su trino
A song without a name, a tune that seeks its trill
Cumple en la selva destino simple de hombre militante
Fulfill in the jungle the simple fate of a militant man
El turno de los instantes de su verdadera suerte
The turn of the moments of his true fortune
Como me manda la muerte con su palabra quemante
As death commands me with its burning word
Si caigo en el camino hagan cantar mi fusil
If I fall on the road, let my rifle sing
Y ensánchenle su destino porque no debe morir
And expand his destiny because he must not die
Si caigo en el camino como puede suceder
If I fall on the road as can happen
Que siga el canto mi amigo cumpliendo con su deber
Let my friend continue the song fulfilling his duty
Canción para mi soldado es la que quiero cantar
A song for my soldier is the one I want to sing
Y con ella confesar que es un canto enamorado
And with it confess that it's a love song
Porque la canta el de al lado el de ayer, el de después
Because it's sung by the one beside me, the one from yesterday, the one from after
Canción que nació una vez que se navegaba el mundo
A song that was born once as we sailed the world
Cuando elegimos el rumbo bajo la estrella del Che
When we chose the course under the star of Che
Si caigo en el camino hagan cantar mi fusil
If I fall on the road let my rifle sing
Y ensánchenle su destino porque no debe morir
And expand his destiny because he must not die
Porque no debe morir
Because it must not die
Si caigo en el camino hagan cantar mi fusil
If I fall on the way, let my rifle sing
Y ensánchenle su destino porque no debe morir
And broaden its destiny because it must not die
Si caigo en el camino como puede suceder
If I fall on the way, as can happen
Que siga el canto mi amigo cumpliendo con su deber
May the song continue, my friend, fulfilling your duty
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Key vocabulary
- selva
- jungleB1
- soldado
- soldierB1
- caigo
- I fall
- camino
- roadB1
- hagan
- they doB1
- cantar
- to singA1
- fusil
- rifleB2
- ensánchenle
- enlarge
- destino
- fateB2
- porque
- because; for the reason thatB1
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.