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Orillas del Plata

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Singer: Juan MAGLIOComposer: Juan MaglioAuthor: Ricardo Llanes

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Lyrics
Van pasando solitarias
sobre mi vida,
las naves rotas
de mi dolor;
sin hallar un puerto
sin hallar amparo
sin contemplar un faro
que alumbre amor.
Y mientras van surcando
los negros mares
de mis pesares,
claman por ti;
que abandonaste
en la ribera
sin primavera
de mi vivir.

Solas van... por doquier
y solas siguen
a impulsos de las penas
del corazón;
no hay un alma
que las contemple
con las miradas
de la pasión;
¿Dónde irán?... no lo sé;
tal vez muy lejos
a hundirse en las borrascas
de la aflicción
en esa noche
cuando infinito
resuene el grito
del aguilón.

Llevan tu olvido cruel
y doloridos se van
con el recuerdo fiel
de lo que nunca olvidarán.

Y así van solitarias
y entristecidas
mirando el cielo
de mi clamor;
la impulsan mis desvelos
las lleva mi delirio,
las conduce el martirio
del sinsabor;
y no encuentran un puerto
ni una ribera
que las acoja
con caridad;
los mares que atraviesan
yacen desiertos
como los campos
de soledad.
English translation
They are passing lonely
over my life,
the broken ships
of my pain
without finding a port
without finding shelter
without beholding a lighthouse
to light up love.
And as they sail
the black seas
of my sorrows
they cry out for you;
that you abandoned
on the shore
without spring
of my life.

Alone they go... everywhere
and alone they go on
at the impulse of the sorrows
of the heart;
there is no soul
to behold them
with the glances
of passion;
Where will they go... I don't know;
perhaps far away
to sink in the squalls
of affliction
in that night
when infinite
resound the cry
of the eagle.

They carry your cruel oblivion
and in pain they leave
with the faithful memory
of what they will never forget.

And so they go lonely
and saddened
looking at the sky
of my clamor;
they are driven by my sleeplessness
they are driven by my delirium,
they are driven by the martyrdom
of the lack of taste;
and they do not find a port
nor a shore
that welcomes them
with charity;
the seas they cross
lie deserted
like the fields
of loneliness.

The Cabeceo