Showing posts with label bachata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bachata. Show all posts

Friday, November 6, 2009

La Cigua de Nuestras Palmeras

(How do you make Blogger.com do Spanish characters? Also, I could use some help with my Spanish, both idiomatic Dominican and general).

The subject is a young artist who lives in a shack on the beach in the D. R., who gets a full scholarship to an unnamed US art conservatory. This song is the merengue dance number at the end of the first act. Notes: the "cigua palmera" is a cute, unassuming little dovelike bird, whose main distinction is being the national bird of D. R. When Dominicans party, they "van de parranda", and they might wind up at a "bachata" unless they leave the island - then it's a fiesta. "Come what may" in Dominican is "salga pato o gallareta" (whether aduck or a chicken comes out)!!!!!!!!!!!

Verse 1:

La arena en tu pincel sentimos en los dedos,
Coloques la luz y las sombras in los flores de rosales.
En Nueva York cantaron las mujeres con nuestras voces,
Incluso si todavia hueles - a pan~ales!!

Chorus:

Pinta, pinta las estrellas en el cielo,
Colore a las nubes un rayo dorado,
Vuele, nuestra cigua y nuestras esperanzas -
Y planten para ti palmeras en los calles.

Verse 2:

Oye! Celebre, vamonos de parranda!
Pintad una pauta con pies bailandos.
Armed la suerte y esperanze con cada pata,
Bebed, bailad, celebremos a bachata!

Verse 3:

Hasta que segun encontremos de nuevo,
En barrio de Nueva York o en tu "jet" privado,
Famoso o pobre, salga pato o gallareta,
Beberemos, bailaremos, pasaremos a bachata!