Lyrics of Campesino - Ebri Knight

Campesino (original)

Cau el sol, cau el món als cerros invisibles
que han comprat els homes blancs per un gra de cafè.
I la serra es despulla xisclant sota les urpes d’Europa
mentre els pobles miners dormen amb els ulls desperts.
M’han fet esclau d’aquesta terra,
han fet de mi un arbre encès.
He fet del silenci una guerra,
he après a viure sense res.
Yo soy campesino puro
y no empecé la pelea,
pero si me buscan ruido
la bailan con la más fea.
Cap fuet de mil puntes els farà oblidar d’on vénen.
Cap infern de mil anys els farà agenollar.
I abracen el seu país per la cintura,
boja i famèlica de ballar al seu compàs.
M’han fet esclau d’aquesta terra,
han fet de mi un arbre encès.
He fet del silenci una guerra,
he après a viure sense res.
Yo soy campesino puro
y no empecé la pelea,
pero si me buscan ruido
la bailan con la más fea.
Cançó popular dels guerrillers del sud de Tolima (Colòmbia)

(translation)

The sun is falling, the world is falling on the invisible hills
which white men have bought for a coffee bean.
And the mountains are stripped bare, squeaking under the claws of Europe
while the mining villages sleep with their eyes wide open.
I have been enslaved to this land,
they have made me a burning tree.
I have made silence a war,
I have learned to live without anything.
I am a pure peasant
and I didn't start the fight,
but if they are looking for noise
they dance it with the ugliest.
A thousand-pointed whip will make them forget where they came from.
No hell of a thousand years will make them kneel.
And they embrace their country around their waists,
crazy and hungry to dance to his beat.
I have been enslaved to this land,
they have made me a burning tree.
I have made silence a war,
I have learned to live without anything.
I am a pure peasant
and I didn't start the fight,
but if they are looking for noise
they dance it with the ugliest.
Folk song of the guerillas of the south of Tolima (Colombia)