La Fabula Del Grillo Y El Mar

The Fable of the Cricket and the Sea

La Fabula Del Grillo Y El Mar

Good evening ladies and gentlemenBuenas noches señoras y señores
I am the man who came to singYo soy el hombre que vino a cantar
Sometimes my voice gets lost in the nightAveces mi voz se pierde en la noche
Sometimes people come to listenAveces la gente viene a escuchar
I'm going to ask you at this momentVoy a pedirles en este momento
to lend me your attention for a whileque me presten por un rato su atencion
so that what I say with this songpara que no sean palabras al viento
won't be just words in the windlo que diga con esta cancion
I'm going to tell you a story, a taleVoy a contarles una historia un cuento
The fable of the cricket and the seaLa fabula del grillo y el mar
The fable, the fableLa fabula, la fabula
The fable of the cricket and the seaLa fabula del grillo y el mar
He lived in a clearing in the forestVivia en un claro del bosque
in the shade of an immortal ceiba treea la sombra de una ceiba inmortal
a cricket that came out at nightun grillo que salia en las noches
to go sing in the wheat fieldpara irse a cantar al trigal
Because there the singing crickets gatheredPorque alla se juntaban para demostrar
to show their abilitysu avilidad los grillos cantores
And ours sang with the othersY el nuestro cantaba con los demas
The choirs in accordance with the seasonsLos coros de acuerdo con las estaciones
The fable, the fableLa fabula, la fabula
The fable of the cricket and the seaLa fabula del grillo y el mar
And his friends told himY le decian sus amigos
You sing very well, you should tryTu cantas muy bien debias provar
to sing to something bigger than the fieldcantarle a algo mas grande que el campo
Why not sing to the sea?¿Porque no cantarle a la mar?
And one day he decided to follow the adviceY dispuso un dia seguir el consejo
And dreams of glory filled his nightsY sueños de gloria llenaron sus noches
And since then he chose, to avoid getting coldY opto desde entonces para no resfriarse
to close all the buttons of his coatcerrarse del saco todos los broches
The fable, the fableLa fabula, la fabula
The fable of the cricket and the seaLa fabula de grillo y el mar
And one day our friend finally reached the seaY llego un dia alfin nuestro amigo a la mar
And spent hours singing to itY pasose las horas cantandole
But the sea roared and roaredPero el mar rugia y rugia
even seeing the cricket in front of itaun viendo al grillo enfrente de el
And the singer was left voiceless by nightY quedose sin voz por la noche el cantor
as sometimes I tend to becomo aveces me suelo quedar
Because sometimes the cricket in the story is mePorque aveces el grillo del cuento soy yo
Guess whoAdivinen ustedes quien
Who is the sea?¿Quien es la mar?