| Lyrics to A Little Smoke Nomás
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| I have to leave you friend
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| After so many distances we've come
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| I with my soul and you with your soul
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| I can't believe this matter one day came to us
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| Forty-odd Octobers passed as if nothing
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| I met you when I barely washed my face
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| Ten years…twelve at the most. |
| Little reason, much desire
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| I remember a dapple was going on horseback, long clinas
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| That Don Segundo Larralde had bought from a Basque
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| After he spent some time, he took the Chinese on the haunches
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| And they had a boy, a boy, of few words
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| Cousin and brother at the same time of who tells you this letter
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| He carried you in the pocket of a ratty blouse
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| Made from a well-washed 5-zero flour bag
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| That the old one sewed me by hand and well reinforced
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| I took you out like who takes a bird out of a cage
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| Slowly and carefully… and the heart galloped
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| I knew it was wrong and that I was cheating
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| But I wanted to feel you… and my heart was galloping
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| I remember in that nap that under a branch
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| Without getting off the horse I gave you the first puff
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| I don't know if it arrives at two. |
| Tata would have been strong
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| He sent four packs and he didn't cough or anything
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| Brazil, the daughter of the bull José León, she was called
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| That little brother of yours who burned my insides
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| Then I stayed for a while, just wanting
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| Because I didn't have money and calodiar scared me
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| Sometimes I saw the old "strong staple and puff"
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| He spent his life whistling and left in one whistle
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| «Poor Basque» someone said, while the old woman prayed
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| Things that life has… totally if not almost nothing
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| just a little smoke!, I said to myself… while she blew the whistle
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| I can't believe this matter one day came to us
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| Having to leave you brother, after so many distances
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| I became a water carrier and it was my first day
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| Although he had a hard time putting up with being bossed around
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| I bought my first bundle of the “Cardenal” brand
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| More chucaro than a bagual I was collecting year after year
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| And although I never did the tin because I was not a drinker
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| I happened to be a blonde, black or brown smoker
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| In nights where the size of loneliness is brave
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| When everything is over and you think it's over
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| You were always by my side just like mate and kettle
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| And when I went to the bowling alley and I didn't reach the money
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| Instead of wearing espadrilles, yerba mate or some other luxury
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| I submitted to the spell of a black tobacco in a can
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| With “El Sol” rice paper, he used to assemble the caporal
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| Tight as a pegual I used to stay the gargüero
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| He was strong and fulero and made of tar... without equal
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| No one will take it badly if I talk to that poor and simple cigarette
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| Companion in all trance, although he feels that he advances my back with his knife
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| Sometimes I feel that a cricket usually comes out of the breath
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| I turn it on and after a while I throw it away or its closure makes me cringe
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| And there's a something that bounces at the bottom of a sigh
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| But with him, when I inhale the knot of a sorrow
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| I feel that it becomes better, I feel that it hurts less
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| He tells me it's a poison, heh! |
| I know well what poisons
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| But despite loving you, as deep as I love you
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| There are rumors that the pampero brings bad news for old
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| The doctor says that the bars have fewer prisoners
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| Downpours pile up in the puddles of life
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| The wounds pile up inside the heart
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| But he says the reason that there is smoke from wasted hours
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| As you can see, I do not resign myself so easily to abandoning you
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| I who was anywhere, winning and losing everything
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| As you can see, I can't find a way to open up without betraying you
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| I know that I will not be able to forget you and I know that there will be many people
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| Who will say that it is not prudent, what a ray in the apology
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| Heh, if I were a god, I could decency the indecent
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| But I am a man and a relative of the rest of the pack
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| I have to leave you, friend, after so many distances
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| Forty-odd Octobers passed as if nothing |