Silvio Rodríguez "El Mayor" lyrics

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El Mayor

El hombre se hizo siemprede todo material:de villas señorialeso barrio marginal.Toda época fue piezade un rompecabezaspara subir la cuestadel gran reino animal,con una mano negray otra blanca mortal.

Mortales ingredientesarmaron al Mayor:luz de terratenientesy de revolución,destreza de la esgrima,sucesos como un preso,Amalia abandonadapor la bala,la vergüenza, el amor;o un fusilamiento,un viejo cuentomodelaron su adiós.

Va cabalgando el Mayor con su herida,y mientras más mortal el tajo, es más de vida.Va cabalgando sobre una palma escrita,y a la distancia de cien años resucita.

Trota sobre la espuma,seguido por un marde negros en machetey sin encadenar.Ordena a su cornetael toque de a degüello,y a un siglo de distanciaentona nuestra cancióny con recia gargantacanta, espantalejos la maldición.

The Major

Men have always been madeof all kinds of materials;from royal housesto marginal neigborhoodsAll ages were piecesof a puzzleto go up the slopeof the great animal kingdom,with a black handand the other, white and lethal

The Major was made upof fatal ingredients,light from the landlordsand from the revolution,dexterity in fencing,events with a prisoner,An amelia that was abandonedby the bullet,the shame, love,or an execution*,an old talethese things modeled his farewell

The Major goes riding with his wound,and the deadliest the wound is, the more life he gainsHe goes riding over a written palmand one hundred years from here, he resurrects

He rides over the seafoamfollowed by a seaof blacks with machetesand unchainedHis cornet ordersthe beheading,and a century from here,he intones our songand with his fierce throathe sings,he scares the curse away

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