La cultura es la sonrisa [English translation]

Culture is the smile that shines everywhere

in a book, in a child, in a cinema or in a theatre

I only have to invite it, then it comes to sing for a little while

Oh, oh, oh, life will go away

but culture will stay here

Culture is the smile for all ages

it could be in a mother, in a friend or in a flower

or maybe it has found refuge in the hard hands of a worker

Culture is the smile with millenium powers

it waits wounded, banished or buried

until the Lord Time comes and lightens up its soul again

Culture is the smile that caresses the song

and all the people become happy, who can say no to it?

Only someone who wants our heart to be sad

• Artist:León Gieco
• Album:Pensar en nada (1981)