Songs
Cancion del Cucu
(1937)
Cancion del Cucu
Cuclillo, cuclillo canta, Días son de cantar,Pronto el duro cierzoCorre por el pinar. Díme si otros bosquesUn día yo veré,Si la lejana tierraMuy pronto hallaré.Dí si por estos mundosVagando siempre iré,O si mi vida erranteMuy pronto acabaré.Pájaro, buen pajarillo,Díme si es verdad:¡Ella dice que siempre,Siempre me seguirá!
Song of the cuckoo
Cuckoo, sing, my little cuckoo.'Tis time to sing,soon the harsh North Windwill run through the pines.Tell me if one dayI shall see other woods,if very soon I shall findthe distant land.Tell me if I'll alwayswander through the world, or it very soon I'll ceasemy wandering life.Bird, sweet little bird,tell me if it's true:she says that alwaysakways she'll follow me!
Translations by Jacqueline Cockburn and Richard Stokes published in the The Spanish Song Companion (Gollancz, 1992)
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Composer
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.
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Cancion del Cucu
Cuclillo, cuclillo canta,
Días son de cantar,
Pronto el duro cierzo
Corre por el pinar.
Díme si otros bosques
Un día yo veré,
Si la lejana tierra
Muy pronto hallaré.
Dí si por estos mundos
Vagando siempre iré,
O si mi vida errante
Muy pronto acabaré.
Pájaro, buen pajarillo,
Díme si es verdad:
¡Ella dice que siempre,
Siempre me seguirá!
Song of the cuckoo
Cuckoo, sing, my little cuckoo.
'Tis time to sing,
soon the harsh North Wind
will run through the pines.
Tell me if one day
I shall see other woods,
if very soon I shall find
the distant land.
Tell me if I'll always
wander through the world,
or it very soon I'll cease
my wandering life.
Bird, sweet little bird,
tell me if it's true:
she says that always
akways she'll follow me!
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
Composer
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.
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