Canción para un niño en la calle [English translation]

At this exact hour

There is a child on the street

There is a child on the street!

It's the honour of the people to protect what grows

To watch out that there isn't childhood scattered on the streets,

To avoid that their ship heart wrecks

Their incredible adventure of bread and chocolate

Putting a star in the place of hunger.

Doing it a different way is useless, doing it a different way is absurd

To practice joy and singing on the earth

Because it's worth nothing if there's a child in the street.

The world should not go with love barefoot

Hoisting a paper like a wing in its hand

Climbing on trains, exchanging laughter

Hitting our chest with a tired wing.

Life should not go, newborn, with a price,

The risky childhood with a tight profit

Because then hands are a useless burden

And the heart, barely a bad word.

Woe is the one that forgot that there's a child on the street,

That there are millions of children who live on the street

And a multitude of children who grow up on the street

I see them tightening their little hearts.

Looking at us all with fables in their eyes

A lightning cut short crosses their gaze

Because noone protects that life that grows

And love got lost like a child on the street.

At this exact hour

There is a child on the street

There is a child on the street!

• Artist:Mercedes Sosa