Non English Lyrics, Hopefully With Translations

Thanks for that one.

shame, eh

http://www.cbc.ca/apropos/host.html

Hi fbaezer, I've been researching this song, and although your translation is close, I think as a native english speaker I can help you out a bit more. Here is what I've got

Its your perfumes, woman,
the ones that excite (soliviar) me,
the ones that excite me,
Its your perfumes woman.

Your eyes, hummingbirds,
oh how they flutter (aletear) at me!
Oh how they flutter at me!
Your eyes, hummingbirds.

Your lips, flowering petals,
how they weed (sorrapar) me!
How they weed me!
Your lips, flowering petals.

Your breasts, jugs of honey,
how they reverberate (reverberar)!
How they reverberate!
Your breasts, jugs of honey.

Your body, untamed, my love,
Oh how it hays (almiarar) me!
Oh how it hays me!
Your body, untamed, my love.

Good translation, mlbarrett.
I was trying to translate the "improper" Spanish into "improper" English, to make it sound a bit like what most Spanish speakers hear. My translation is an interpretation.

Nicaraguan description of the word "sulibeyan": you throw a porous rock in a pond, and when it's coming out, it is "sulibeyando".
And the word "chúcaro" is actually, for Nicaraguan peasants, an invitating lip movement. Doesn't mean anything elsewhere.

Has anyone ever come across a translation from the songs by Silvio Rodriguez?
For example Son Desangrado, Canción de Invierno or Te doy una Canción?

Just wondering...
-Ayen W W

I hope somebody can help you out there.

Some of the better Silvio Rodríguez, with this song. The part where he sings "Oh, I kill it, and a bigger one appears. Oh, with much more hell in digestion" is my favorite Silvio moment.
Instead, his "love" songs that at the end turn out to be "love for the Cuban Revolution" are, IMHO, amongst the lowest moments in Latin American music. "Te doy una canción" is an example of those.

Sueño con serpientes - Silvio Rodríguez

Sueño con serpientes, con serpientes de mar,
con cierto mar, ay, de serpientes sueño yo.
Largas, transparentes, y en sus barrigas llevan
lo que puedan arrebatarle al amor.

Oh, la mato y aparece una mayor.
Oh, con mucho más infierno en digestión.

No quepo en su boca. Me trata de tragar
pero se atora con un trébol de mi sien.
Creo que está loca. Le doy de masticar
una paloma y la enveneno de mi bien.

Ésta al fin me engulle, y mientras por su esófago
paseo, voy pensando en qué vendrá.
Pero se destruye cuando llego a su estómago
y planteo con un verso una verdad.

I Dream with Serpents

I dream with serpents, with sea serpents,
with a certain sea, ay, of serpents I dream.
Long, transparent, and in their bellies they carry
what they can grab from love.

Oh, I kill it, and a bigger one appears.
Oh, with much more hell in digestion.

I don't fit in it's mouth. It tries to devour me
but it is blocked by a clover in my temple.
I think it's crazy. I give her a dove to chew
and I poison it with my good.

It finally guttles me, and while I travel
in its esophagus, I go thinking on what will come.
But it destroys when I reach its stomach
and plant a truth with a verse.

Hey, thanks for the comment and the translation. I have been thoroughly unfamiliar with the man.

Over there in the big ranch,
where I lived,
there was a woman,
she said to me happily;
she said to me happily;
I’m going to make your trousers,
like those of a rancher,
I’ll start them with wool,
I’ll finish them with leather.
Over there in the big ranch,
where I lived,
there was a woman,
she said to me happily;
she said to me happily;
When my mother-in-law dies,
and they bury her upside down,
and if she wants to get out,
She’ll go further down.
Over there in the big ranch,
where I lived,
there was a woman,
she said to me happily;
she said to me happily;
I’m going to make your trousers,
like those of a rancher,
I’ll start them with wool,
I’ll finish them with leather.


This is actually the Robert Earl Keen version, translated..