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Singer: Carlos DI SARLIComposer: Eduardo ArolasAuthor: Jesús Fernández Blanco

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Hoy quisiera retornar
al suelo que nací,
lejana Catamarca,
que me vio partir,
mientras la chura hermosa,
pegadita a mí,
lloraba silenciosa...
Hoy que el mundo conocí
y el triunfo conquisté,
recuerdo entristecido
el amor feliz
y el vallecito lindo
donde yo canté
¡la dicha de vivir!...

Muy rico de ilusiones,
muy pobre de experiencia,
las raudas alas loco desplegué,
pero fue visión lo que yo soñé...
Y en mis meditaciones
me dice la conciencia
que al vallecito tengo que volver
¡para revivir mi ayer!...

Si se viviera dos veces
jamás me alejaría
de donde pasó mi niñez,
donde nació mi alegría.
¡Allí donde amaba,
cantaba y reía!...
Sueño vivir con mi amada
en la nativa fronda,
mirando sus ojos de sol,
de una ternura tan honda
que nadie ni nada
de mi alma borró...
English translation
Today I would like to return
to the soil where I was born,
faraway Catamarca,
that saw me leave,
while the beautiful chura,
close to me,
wept silently...
Today that I knew the world
and the triumph I conquered,
I remember saddened
the happy love
and the pretty little valley
where I sang
the joy of living!...

Very rich in illusions,
very poor in experience,
I spread out my crazy wings,
but it was vision that I dreamed of...
And in my meditations
my conscience tells me
that I must return to the little valley
to relive my yesterday!...

If I were to live twice
I would never move away
from where my childhood was spent,
where my joy was born.
There where I loved,
sang and laughed!...
I dream of living with my beloved
in the native forest,
gazing into her sunny eyes,
of a tenderness so deep
that no one or nothing
erased from my soul...

The Cabeceo