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Gringa Chaqueña

Mercedes Sosa

Gringa Chaqueña

Ahora eres
La cuna de la paz
Y del trabajo
Cuando yo te habite
Eras puros tacuruses

Monte sin flor
Indiada y tolderia
Campos de espinas
Amargura, cruces ...

Sangre de mi gente
Tu horizonte maduro
Gringos te abonaron
Con su piel y su sudor

Dejame decir
Lo que yo te di
Dejame que cuente
De este chaco que hice yo

Yo te trabaje
Hice de tu piel
Una sombra nueva
Yo te di algodon
Hijos te brinde
Rostros de cosecha

Chaco montaraz
Toba redomon
Fui mujer entera

Tu tierra vacante
Fue una cuna grande
Aspera y materna

Tu esterilidad
Yo la fecunde
Cada luna nueva
Y dandote vida
Me he sentido yo
Bien gringa y tambien chaqueña

Gringa Chaqueña

Now you are
The cradle of peace
And work
When I inhabited you
You were pure tacuruses

Flowerless mountain
Indigenous and tented
Fields of thorns
Bitterness, crosses...

Blood of my people
Your mature horizon
Gringos fertilized you
With their skin and sweat

Let me say
What I gave you
Let me tell
Of this Chaco that I made

I worked you
Made of your skin
A new shade
I gave you cotton
I offered you children
Harvest faces

Wild Chaco
Redomon Toba
I was a whole woman

Your vacant land
Was a big cradle
Rough and maternal

Your sterility
I fertilized
Every new moon
And giving you life
I have felt myself
Quite gringa and also chaqueña

Escrita por: Ariel Ramírez