Guajiro

RUZZO (with a countryman's voice):
I was born on a riverbank in the middle
of the mountain, and I sing my country song to you
like the mockingbird sings it.
CHORUS (2x)
(ROLDAN)
Get up to work, Jose
the sugar cane needs to be cut, you see
then we'll go eat...
(RUZZO)
rice with beans
and a gulp of coffee
(ROLDAN)
This month I'm going to plant,
the rice for the whole ranch
a little bit of beans
to eat at the end of the year
a bit of sweet potato, and a
piece of onion
to mix, to season,
the soy mince
(RUZZO AND ROLDAN)
I'll also harvest
(ROLDAN)
the tomato in my tractor
and a bit of hot pepper,
to enhance the flavor
rice with chicken, for the end of the year,
cassava with mojo sauce and beer
to share with the whole neighborhood
CHORUS (2X)
(YOTUEL)
That's a day like any other
the tractor, the road
waiting for the countryman
who, when planting pleasures, whole
sugarcane fields, waiting to
devour the stalks,
country girls, beautiful girls,
devouring their bodies in
those waterfalls, wet clothes
clinging, sculptural beauty
in the Cuban countryside, forged
(RUZZO)
Like a rooster in the savannah,
crowing standing I keep fighting in the mountain
like (something missing here) of the rooster comes rumbling
my voice in the throat,
there, there, where the mockingbird sang the most,
there, with the strength of two oxen
the countryman, leaves my name marked, Orishas,
from the mountain to you, peasant
CHORUS (2X)
(RUZZO)
This heat has awakened me from yesterday, but
color of earth defines me as a better being,
I go to the threshing floor, I sow (something missing here)
guantanamera, raking the furrow
singing this fine verse
(YOTUEL)
With my song I want to reach you,
who listen, the voice of my generation
my sun, my sound, my song
(something missing here) countryman to the beat of the drum greets
San Felipe, Havana, Yoruba.
CHORUS (3X)