silvio (ii)

...te doy una canción
como un disparo,
como un libro,
una palabra,
una guerrilla...
como doy el amor.

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...i give you a song
like a gunshot,
like a book,
a word,
a guerrilla...
like i give my love.

thank goodness for silvio rodríguez! or maybe thank cuba. he's so young here. and cuba is so cuba...

la canción de la trova (cuba, 1968), filmed by santiago alvarez & noticiero icaic :



this is a performance from the 2ndo festival de la nueva canción latinoamericana, which was held in sandinista nicaragua in 1983. words on the stage read : la lucha es el mas alto de los cantos / the (armed) struggle is the greatest song...

pequeña serenata diurna (nicaragua, 1983) :



one of the things i love about silvio is that his songs are poems, and people appreciate them like that, incorporate them into their lives & occasions, and will recite/sing them all the way through beginning to end when given the opportunity.

like this...

te doy una canción (cuba, 1985) :



or this!

ojalá (spain, 1993) :



mil gracias, silvio.