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Mari Jasca

Alfonsina y el marAlfonsina and the Sea

Mari Jasca · Doce Deleite Sweet Delight (2024)

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Composer: Duo Jasca, Mari Jasca, Diego Jascalevich

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

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Por la blanda arena que lame el mar

Su pequeña huella no vuelve más

Un sendero solo

De pena y silencio llegó

Hasta el agua profunda

Y un sendero solo de penas mudas llegó

Hasta la espuma


Sabe Dios qué angustia te acompañó

Qué dolores viejos calló tu voz

Para recostarte arrullada en el canto de las

Caracolas marinas

La canción que canta en el fondo oscuro del mar

La caracola


Te vas Alfonsina con tu soledad

¿Qué poemas nuevos fuiste a buscar?

Una voz antigua de viento y de sal

Te requiebra el alma y la está llevando

Y te vas hacia allá como en sueños

Dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de mar


Cinco sirenitas te llevarán

Por caminos de algas y de coral

Y fosforescentes caballos marinos harán

Una ronda a tu lado

Y los habitantes del agua van a jugar

Pronto a tu lado


Bájame la lámpara un poco más

Déjame que duerma, nodriza, en paz

Y si llama él no le digas que estoy

Dile que Alfonsina no vuelve

Y si llama él no le digas nunca que estoy

Di que me he ido


Te vas Alfonsina con tu soledad

¿Qué poemas nuevos fuiste a buscar?

Una voz antigua de viento y de sal

Te requiebra el alma y la está llevando

Y te vas hacia allá como en sueños

Dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de mar

Translation

By the soft sand that the sea licks

Her small footprint returns no more

A single path

Of sorrow and silence reached

To the deep water

And a single path of mute sorrows reached

To the foam


God knows what anguish accompanied you

What old pains your voice silenced

To lie down lulled by the song of the

Seashells

The song that the seashell sings in the dark depths of the sea


You leave, Alfonsina, with your solitude

What new poems did you go to seek?

An ancient voice of wind and salt

Breaks your soul and is carrying it away

And you go there as in dreams

Asleep, Alfonsina, dressed in sea


Five little mermaids will carry you

Through paths of algae and coral

And phosphorescent seahorses will make

A round by your side

And the inhabitants of the water will play

Soon by your side


Lower the lamp a little more for me

Let me sleep, nurse, in peace

And if he calls, don't tell him I'm here

Tell him Alfonsina isn't coming back

And if he calls, never tell him I'm here

Say that I have gone


You leave, Alfonsina, with your solitude

What new poems did you go to seek?

An ancient voice of wind and salt

Breaks your soul and is carrying it away

And you go there as in dreams

Asleep, Alfonsina, dressed in sea

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