Soledad [English translation]

Soledad… 1

It was a starless night

when departing from me you left me

so much pain and so much evil.

Soledad…

Since the day you left

in the village there’s only

conventual silence.

Soledad…

The streams are dry

and in the streets thousand echoes

call you night and day.

Soledad... come back now

to take away your songs.

The crepe, which casts a shadow

over my loneliness, will stay forever. (repetition of the whole stanza)

Soledad... come back now...

And it comes back now... my loneliness...

1. Soledad is the name of a woman, meaning solitude.

• Artist:Chavela Vargas