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sábado, 29 de agosto de 2009

cancionero II

La canción del cantor
Alfredo Zitarrosa


Canta el cantor su pena y sus alegrías,
pero nunca ha podido cantar las mías.
Yo tampoco las canto, porque mis penas
de ser tan sólo mías, son como ajenas.
Y cuando estoy contento, tampoco canto,
no sea que de las risas vengan los llantos.


Con cada canto nuevo, siente el que canta
que le sube la vida por la garganta.
Los cantores que cantan cosas prestadas
son como los gorriones, van en bandadas.
Mejor cantar poquito, como el hornero,
y levantar el nido frente al pampero.


No hay canción que me cante, dice el trovero,
para el buey de adelante sobra el sendero.
Porque el canto me sale, como aprendido,
desde el nacer peleando contra el olvido.

sábado, 8 de agosto de 2009

cancionero I

Un pequeño homenaje a ese gran trovador, Leonard Cohen, con una de las canciones que sirvió de inspiración para mi reciente libro inédito árbol de arco (baladas).


Joan of Arc


Now the flames they followed joan of arc
As she came riding through the dark;
No moon to keep her armour bright,
No man to get her through this very smoky night.
She said, I'm tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
A wedding dress or something white
To wear upon my swollen appetite.


Well, I'm glad to hear you talk this way,
You know I've watched you riding every day
And something in me yearns to win
Such a cold and lonesome heroine.
And who are you? she sternly spoke
To the one beneath the smoke.
Why, I'm fire, he replied,
And I love your solitude, I love your pride.


Then fire, make your body cold,
I'm going to give you mine to hold,
Saying this she climbed inside
To be his one, to be his only bride.
And deep into his fiery heart
He took the dust of joan of arc,
And high above the wedding guests
He hung the ashes of her wedding dress.


It was deep into his fiery heart
He took the dust of joan of arc,
And then she clearly understood
If he was fire, oh then she must be wood.
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?