Baltazar Brum

Baltazar Blum*

recitation:

In 1933 again
interests foreign to this land
they chain freedoms again
and they put Gabriel Tierra as dictator.

The affront that the perjurer
made the country,
found everyone
with dead consciences.

Only Baltazar Brum
he had courage,
only Baltazar Brum
He was ashamed.

sung:

There they are, they are those few
Don Baltazar,
four or five accompany him.

And they're already leaving at the door, vidalita
almost every morning.

Courage of the man alone,
They are Baltazar,
because he has only stood
the shirt open to the chest, vidalita
and a revolver in his hand.

recited:

Where are Colonels and Generals?
Where is that party that elected me?
Where are you, Montivedean citizens?

sung:

Where are the nation's officials?

They appear to turn it on, vidalita
and with bullets he answers.
Well, crazy life matters,
Don Baltazar.
something else is what counts.

Loneliness of a alone man,
Don Baltazar,
alone in a deserted street,
the country is next to him, vidalita,
standing guard at the door.

recited:

Where are the soldiers who don't appear?
Where are all the people who elected me?
Where are Generals and Colonels?

sung:

Where are the nation's officials?

recitation:

March thirty-first
it stretches in the afternoon
and the shadow becomes long
of the man alone, who waits.

At four p.m
crosses the center of the street.
The shirt open to the chest
and the chest open to the country.

At four p.m
a shot is heard in the street
and it becomes night suddenly
of a shroud of horror.

sung:

At four in the afternoon, vidalita
It was doubling, doubling.
To go upright forever
Don Baltazar,
at four p.m.

And the city seemed dead, alive,
the people did not show up
and there were the uniforms,
Don Baltazar,
greeting the dictator.

*Gives musical work "Chronicles of Free Men" (1972)