النتائج (
العربية) 2:
[نسخ]نسخ!
I think that it'd be really enriching if everyone posted a song that they like from their countries.
Mine is Asturias, by Víctor Manuel. Here you are a link to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONvcqxU8pY.
Asturias is an autonomous community from Spain, and it is said that this song is its unofficial hymn. It was written by Pedro Garfias in 1937, who was an Andalusian member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and it talks about the close defeat that was going to suffer the Asturian labour movement by the Francoism. It is very emotive.
This would be an attempt of translation of the lyric. I did some comments too, so you can understand it a little better:
Asturias, if I could,
if I knew how to sing you...
Asturias, green with hills
and black with minerals.
There had been a very important minning development of coal in Asturias, and because of its rainfall (it has an oceanic climate) it has an huge vegetation.
I am a man from the South,
dust, Sun, fatigue and hunger,
hunger of bread and horizons...
Hunger!
Andalusia had always been one of the poorest places of Spain, and some of its cities are especially dry and hot in summer.
Under my dried up skin,
solid rivers of blood
and the suffocated heart
without veins for soothing you.
My eyes are blind, my eyes
blind from looking so long upon you
without seeing you, Asturias of my heart,
daughter of my own mother.
Twice, twice, you had
an occasion to stake
your life on a game
and twice you staked it.
This makes a reference to the Asturian minners' strike of 1934 and the Asturian Offensive in 1937.
Who will knock down that tree
of Asturias, that is now without foliage,
naked, withered, stuck
with its endearing root
which extends to the whole Spain
inflaming us of courage?
By that time, in the 30s, Asturias was an example of courage for the Republican Faction in the Spanish Civil War.
Look, workers of the world,
how its shape is getting smaller
against this impassible,
vertical, unbreakable sky,
while it is firm on firm stones
and wounded its meat.
Millions of fist scream
its anger on the air,
millions of hearts
hit against their prisons.
Prepare your last jump,
pallid and coward death,
prepare your last jump
because Asturias is waiting for you
alone in half of the Earth.
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