Silvio Rodríguez
Vamos a andar lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1979
- Length
- 3:57
Vamos a andar en verso y vida tintos
Let's walk in verse and life in reds
Levantando el recinto del pan y la verdad
Raising the space of bread and truth
Vamos a andar matando el egoísmo
Let's walk while killing egoism
Para que por lo mismo reviva la amistad
So that for the same reason friendship is revived
Vamos a andar hundiendo al poderoso
Let's walk sinking the powerful
Alzando al perezoso, sumando a los demás
Lifting the lazy, counting everyone else in
Vamos andar con todas las banderas
Let's walk with all the banners
Trenzadas de manera que no haya soledad
Braided in a way that there's no loneliness
Que no haya soledad
That there's no loneliness
Que no haya soledad
That there's no loneliness
Que no haya soledad
No more loneliness
Vamos a andar para llegar a la vida
We're going to walk to reach life
(Vamos a andar) en verso y vida tintos
(We're going to walk) in verse and life tinted
(Para llegar) levantando el recinto
(To reach) raising the enclosure
(Vamos a andar) del pan y la verdad
(We're going to walk) for bread and the truth
(Para llegar) matando el egoísmo
(To reach) killing off selfishness
(Vamos a andar) para que por lo mismo
(We're going to walk) so that for the same reason
(Para llegar) reviva la amistad
(To reach) friendship comes back to life
(Vamos a andar) hundiendo al poderoso
(We're going to walk) sinking the powerful
(Para llegar) alzando al perezoso
(To reach) lifting up the lazy
(Vamos a andar) sumando a los demás
(Let's go on) adding to the others
(Para llegar) con todas las banderas
(To arrive) with all the banners
(Vamos a andar) trenzadas de manera
(Let's go on) intertwined in a way
(Para llegar) que no haya soledad
(To arrive) where there's no loneliness
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
(Let's go on, to arrive)
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
(Let's go on, to arrive)
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
(Let's go on, to arrive)
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
(Let's go on, to arrive)
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
(Let's go on, to arrive)
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
(Let's go on, to arrive)
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
Let's walk, to arrive
(Vamos a andar, para llegar)
Let's walk, to arrive
(Vamos a andar)
Let's walk
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Key vocabulary
- poderoso
- powerfulA2
- recinto
- enclosureA2
- verdad
- truthA2
- vida
- lifeA2
- tintos
- redsA1
- levantando
- raising
- pan
- breadA1
- matando
- killing
- egoísmo
- selfishnessB2
- mismo
- sameA1
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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.