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Today's Music Nelly Omar - Adios Pampa Mia

Read about the fantastic Nelly Omar on TodoTango's Biography page.

Lyrics:

¡Adiós pampa mía!...Me voy... Me voy a tierras extrañasadiós, caminos que he recorrido, ríos, montes y cañadas, tapera donde he nacido. Si no volvemos a vernos,tierra querida, quiero que sepasque al irme dejo la vida.¡Adiós!... Al dejarte, pampa mía, ojos y alma se me llenancon el verde de tus pastosy el temblor de las estrellas...Con el canto de tus vientosy el sollozar de vihuelasque me alegraron a veces, y otras me hicieron llorar. ¡Adiós pampa mía!... Me voy camino de la esperanza.Adiós, llanuras que he galopado,sendas, lomas y quebradas, lugares donde he soñado.Yo he de volver a tu suelo, cuando presientaque mi alma escapacomo paloma hasta el cielo...¡Adiós!...¡Me voy, pampa mía!...¡Adiós!...

English:

Goodbye, my pampa !... I'm leaving... I'm leaving for strange lands Goodbye, roads that I have travelled, rivers, hills and ravines, the shack where I was born. If we don't see each other again,my loved land, I want you to know That in my departure I leave my life Goodbye ! . . . In leaving you, my pampa My eyes and my soul get filled With the green of your grass and the trembling of the stars; with the singing of the winds and the weeping of the guitars That sometimes made me happy And other times made me cry. Goodbye . . . my Pampa I'm leaving on the road of hope Goodbye, plains that I have galloped paths, hills and ravines Places where I have dreamed. I will return to your soil when I have a premonition That my soul is escaping Like a dove, up to the sky. Goodbye !I'm leaving, my pampa! ...Goodbye!...

Still absolutely amazing in 1997, with her recording of Comme Il Fault




by Arolas with lyrics by Gabriel Clausi

Luna, farol y canción, dulce emoción del ayerfue en París, donde viví tu amor. Tango, Champagne, corazón, noche de amorque no está, en mi sueño vivirá... Es como debe ser, con ilusión vivílas alegrías y las tristezas; en esa noche fue que yo sentí por vosuna esperanza en mi corazón. Es como debe ser en la pasión de ley, tus ojos negros y tu belleza. Siempre serás mi amor en bello amanecerpara mi vida, dulce ilusión. En este tangote cuento mi tristeza, dolor y llantoque dejo en esta pieza. Quiero que oigas mi canciónhecha de luna y de faroly que tu amor, mujer,vuelva hacia mí.

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