Asturias
Asturias si yo pudiera
se yo supiera cantarte
Asturias verde de montes
y negra de minerales...
Yo soy un hombre del sur
plovo, sol fatiga y hambre
hambre de pan y horizontes... hambre
Bajo la piel resecada
rios sólidos se sangre
y el corazón asfixiado
sin venas para aliviarte.
Los ojos ciegos los ojos
ciegos de tanto mirarte
sin verte Asturias lejana.
Hija de mi misma madre
dos veces dos has tenido
ocasión par jugarte
La vida en una partida
y las dos te la jugaste
¿Quién derribara ese arbol
de Asturias ya un ramaje?
Desnudo, seco, clavado,
con su raiz entrañable
que corre por toda España
crispandonos de coraje.
Mirad obreros del mundo su silueta recortarse
contra ese cielo impasible
vertical inquebrantable.
Firme sobre roca firme
herida viva su carne
millones de puños griban
su cólera por los aires.
Millones de corazones
golpean contra tus carceles
prepara tu salto ultimo
livida muerte cobarde.
Prepara tu ultimo salto
que Asturias sesta aguardandote
sola en mitad de la tierra
hija de mi misma madre.
Asturias
Asturias if I could
if I knew how to sing to you
Asturias green with mountains
and black with minerals...
I am a man from the south
dust, sun, fatigue, and hunger
hunger for bread and horizons... hunger
Under the dried skin
rivers of solid blood
and the suffocated heart
without veins to relieve you.
Blind eyes, the eyes
blind from looking at you so much
without seeing you distant Asturias.
Daughter of my own mother
twice you had the chance
to play with you
Life in a game
and both times you played it
Who will knock down that tree
of Asturias with its branches?
Naked, dry, nailed,
with its deep-rooted root
that runs through all of Spain
crushing us with courage.
Look, workers of the world, its silhouette cutting through
against that impassive sky
vertical unbreakable.
Firm on rock firm
its flesh a living wound
millions of fists shout
their anger into the air.
Millions of hearts
beat against your prisons
prepare for your final leap
pale cowardly death.
Prepare for your final leap
for Asturias is waiting for you
alone in the middle of the earth
daughter of my own mother.