Lyrics of Puente de los Suspiros - Chabuca Granda

Puente de los Suspiros (original)

Puentecito escondido entre follajes y entre añoranzas,
Puentecito tendido sobre la herida de una quebrada,
Retoña en pensamientos tus maderos,
se aferra el corazón a tu balaustres
Puentecito dormido y entre el murmullo de la querencia,
abrazado al recuerdo… barranco y escalinatas.
Puente de los suspiros… quiero que guardes,
en tu grato silencio mi confidencia.
Es mi puente un poeta que me espera…
Con su quieta madera cada tarde,
y suspira y suspiro… me recibe y le dejo,
solo sobre su herida, su quebrada…
y las viejas consejas van contando,
de la injusta distancia del amante.
Sus arrestos vencidos, vencidos por los Ficus
de enterradas raíces en su amada.
Puentecito dormido y entre el murmullo de la querencia,
abrazado al recuerdo… barranco y escalinatas.
Puente de los suspiros… quiero que guardes,
en tu grato silencio mi confidencia.

(translation)

Little bridge hidden between foliage and longing,
Little bridge stretched over the wound of a ravine,
Your wood sprouts in thoughts,
the heart clings to your balusters
Little bridge asleep and between the murmur of love,
embracing the memory… ravine and steps.
Bridge of Sighs… I want you to save,
in your pleasant silence my confidence.
My bridge is a poet who awaits me...
With its still wood each afternoon,
and he sighs and he sighs… he receives me and I leave him,
only about his wound from him, his brokenness from him…
and the old advice is counting,
of the lover's unfair distance.
The arrests of him defeated, defeated by the Ficus
of buried roots in his beloved.
Little bridge asleep and between the murmur of love,
embracing the memory… ravine and steps.
Bridge of Sighs… I want you to save,
in your pleasant silence my confidence.