| Guantanamera, ma ville Guantanamera
| Guantanamera, my city Guantanamera
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| Guantanamera, ma ville Guantanamera
| Guantanamera, my city Guantanamera
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| C'était un homme en déroute
| He was a confused man
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| C'était son frère sans doute
| It was probably his brother
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| Il n’avait ni lieu, ni place
| It had no place, no place
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| Et sur les routes de l’exil
| And on the roads of exile
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| Sur les sentiers, sur les places
| On the trails, in the squares
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| Il s’en allait loin de sa ville
| He was going away from his city
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| Guantanamera, ma ville Guantanamera
| Guantanamera, my city Guantanamera
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| Guantanamera, ma ville Guantanamera
| Guantanamera, my city Guantanamera
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| Là-bas sa maison de misère
| There his house of misery
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| Etait plus blanche que le coton
| Was whiter than cotton
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| Les rues de sable et de terre
| The streets of sand and dirt
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| Sentaient le rhum et le melon
| Smelled of rum and melon
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| Sous leur jupon de dentelles
| Under their lace petticoats
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| Dieu que les femmes étaient belles
| God the women were beautiful
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| Guantanamera, ma ville Guantanamera
| Guantanamera, my city Guantanamera
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| Guantanamera, ma ville Guantanamera
| Guantanamera, my city Guantanamera
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| Il me reste toute la terre
| I have all the land left
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| Mais je n’en demandais pas tant
| But I didn't ask for so much
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| Quand j’ai passé la frontière
| When I crossed the border
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| Il n’y avait rien devant
| There was nothing ahead
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| J’allais d’escale en escale
| I was going from stopover to stopover
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| Loin de ma terre natale | Far from my native land |