Silvio Rodríguez
Madre lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1987
- Length
- 2:17
Madre, en tu día
Mother, on your day
no dejamos de mandarte nuestro amor.
we never stop sending you our love.
Madre, en tu día
Mother, on your day
con las vidas construímos tu canción.
with our lives we built your song.
Madre, que tu nostalgia se vuelva el odio más feroz.
Mother, let your nostalgia turn into the fiercest hate.
Madre, necesitamos de tu arroz.
Mother, we need your rice.
Madre, ya no estés triste, la primavera volverá,
Mother, don't be sad anymore, spring will return,
madre, con la palabra libertad.
mother, with the word freedom.
Madre, los que no estemos para cantarte esta canción,
Mother, those of us who aren't here to sing you this song,
madre, recuerda que fue por tu amor.
mother, remember it was for your love.
Madre, en tu día
Mother, on your day
-Madre Patria y Madre Revolución-,
-Mother Homeland and Mother Revolution-
Madre, en tu día
Mother, on your day
tus muchachos barren minas de Haiphong.
your boys sweep the mines of Haiphong.
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Key vocabulary
- vuelva
- returnB1
- primavera
- springA1
- tus
- yourA1
- madre
- motherA1
- día
- dayA1
- dejamos
- we leave
- mandarte
- to send you
- nuestro
- ourB1
- amor
- loveB1
- vidas
- livesA2
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.