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Thread #18417   Message #2269245
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Feb-08 - 12:58 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: El Condor Pasa (in Spanish or Portuguese)
Subject: RE: El Condor Pasa
These are the 1913 lyrics by the Huanuqueño composer Daniel Alomías Robles, which he composed in the Quechuan language as well as Castillian Spanish. They were incorporated in the zarzuela by Julio Baudouin y Paz, as noted above. The music, the arrangement originally by B. y P. and Robles, is based on an Andean tune, but is not wholly folk.

They were posted by Escamillo 22 Feb 00, above, but the arrangement of the text is somewhat confusing.

Philip Jacobs spelling of the Quechua (Runasimipi), linked in a previous post, is more correct, but not as understandable as the slightly Hispanicized spelling in the words below:

EL CONDOR PASA
Daniel Alomías Robles
Quechua

Yau kuntur llaqtay orgopy tiyaq
Maymantam gawamuhuakchianqui,
    kuntur kuntur
Apaylliahuay llaqtanchikman,
wasinchikman chay chiri orgupy,
Kutiytam munany,
    kuntur kuntur

Fugue
Kuzco llaqtapyn plazachallampyn
suyaykamullaway,
Machupicchupy Huaynapicchupu
purikunanchiqpaq

EL CÓNDOR PASA
Daniel Alomías Robles
Castillian

Oh majestuoso Cóndor de los Andes,
llévame a mi hogar, en los Andes,
Oh Cóndor

Quiero volver a mi tierra querida,
y vivir con mis hermanos Incas,
que es lo que más añoro,
Oh Cóndor

Fugue
Espérame en Cuzco, en la plaza principal,
para que vayamos a pasearnos,
a Machupicchu y Huayna-picchu.

El Condor Pasa    

For biography, see El Condor Pasa

Below are the Runasimipi (Quechuan) words posted by Jacobs in the linked article. More scholarly and up-to-date.

KUNTUR PHAWAN (YAW KUNTUR)
Runasimipi

Yaw kuntur llaqtay urqupi tiyaq,
maymantam qawamuwachkanki kuntur kuntur
Apallaway llaqtanchikman,
wasinchikman chay chiri urqupi,
kutiytam munani kuntur kuntur.

Qusqu llaqtapim plasachachallanpim suyaykamullaway,
Machu Pikchupi Wayna Pikchupi purikunanchikpaq.

ichaqa [fugue]
Qusqu llaqtapim Waqaypatapim suyakamullaway,
Machu Pikchupi Wayna Pikchupi purikunanchikpaq.

(Qusqu = Qosqo = Cuzco)

http://www.philip-jacobs.de/runasimi/y-kuntur.htm