Mi querencia [English translation]

        Morning star,

      Lend me your brightness

      to light up the way

      to my lover, who is leaving.

        If you go through any hardship

      away from my solitude,

      tell the morning star1

      to bring you back.

      Tell the morning star

      to bring you back.

If I'm attached2 to the country

and I'm as strong as a wild bull

How could I not sing,

how could I not sing

the way a heart sings?

If I'm attached to the country

and to the araguaney flower

How could I not yearn

How could I not yearn

to go back to that place?

If I'm attached to the country

and to cattle herds

how could I not dream

how could I not dream

of the Sun of the deers?

(again from the beginning)

1. Note that he uses a different word here for morning, which could be literally translated as "dawn" (and referring mainly to the light). However, the phrase "lucero del alba" and "lucero de la mañana", as well as a whole group of similar phrases, are often translated as "morning star", since they're essentially the same thing.2. Literally "If my attachment is to the countryside"

• Artist:Simón Díaz