Translation of the song lyrics Gringa Chaqueña - Mercedes Sosa

Gringa Chaqueña (original)

Ahora eres
La cuna de la paz
Y del trabajo
Cuando yo te habite
Eras puros tacuruses
Monte sin flor
Indiada y tolderia
Campos de espinas
Amargura, cruces …
Sangre de mi gente
Tu horizonte maduro
Gringos te abonaron
Con su piel y su sudor
Dejame decir
Lo que yo te di
Dejame que cuente
De este chaco que hice yo
Yo te trabaje
Hice de tu piel
Una sombra nueva
Yo te di algodon
Hijos te brinde
Rostros de cosecha
Chaco montaraz
Toba redomon
Fui mujer entera
Tu tierra vacante
Fue una cuna grande
Aspera y materna
Tu esterilidad
Yo la fecunde
Cada luna nueva
Y dandote vida
Me he sentido yo
Bien gringa y tambien chaqueña

Gringa Chaqueña (translation)

Now you are
The cradle of peace
and from work
when I inhabit you
You were pure tacuruses
mount without flower
Indiada and tolderia
fields of thorns
Bitterness, crosses…
blood of my people
Your mature horizon
Gringos paid you
With your skin and your sweat
Let me say
What I gave you
let me count
From this chaco that I made
I worked for you
I made your skin
a new shadow
I gave you cotton
children give you
harvest faces
wild chaco
round tuff
I was a whole woman
your vacant land
It was a big crib
Rough and maternal
your sterility
I fertilized her
every new moon
and giving you life
I have felt myself
Very gringa and also chaqueña