La Tapera

La Tapera (The Village)

VALS
Music: Osvaldo Donato
Lyrics: Sergio Sosa
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Edgardo Donato with Félix Gutiérrez in 1936

Cerquita ´e la senda
Que va al camposanto,
Sobre la ladera
Del cerro, el clamor,

Está la tapera
Que el gaucho respeta,
Como un exponente
De pena y dolor.

Allí vive alegre
Una paisanita,
La de ojos de ensueño
Y labios en flor,

Que ingenua creía
Que las margaritas,
A las campesinas
Les hablan de amor.

(Instrumental)

(Unsung Part)

Una tarde aciaga
Llegó un forastero,
De altiva presencia
En su redomón,

Se hincó de rodillas
Le dijo: “Te amo,
Con la idolatría
Que amo a mi facón”.

La virgen serrana
Creyó en los fervores,
El palabrerío
Y la adulación,

Y le dio, inocente
Con gran alegría,
La llave dorada
De su corazón.

Close by the path
that leads to the graveyard,
on the hillside,
the outcry—

Stands the humble shack
the gaucho respects
—a symbol of sorrow and pain.

There lives a cheerful
country girl
—with dreamy eyes
and lips like a blooming flower—

Who naively believed
that daisies
speak of love
to country maids.

(Instrumental)

(Unsung Part)

One fateful afternoon,
a stranger arrived
—proud of bearing,
astride his half-tamed mount.

He knelt before her
and said: "I love you
with the same devotion
I hold for my facón knife"

The mountain maiden
believed his fervent words,
his glib talk,
and his flattery;

And, innocent
and overjoyed,
she gave him the golden key
to her heart.

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