The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17477   Message #189974
Posted By: GUEST,thompsjm@intranet.ca
05-Mar-00 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Gracias a la Vida (Violeta Parra)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Gracias ala Vida
I heard a lovely English rendition of this song yesterday evening and was looking for English lyrics - would anyone have them?

I tried the Alta Vista translator and came up with the following - it gives the flavour but I'm sure a human could do better!

Thanks to the life that has given so much me gave two luceros Me that when I open them Perfect I distinguish the black of the target and in the high sky its starred bottom and in the multitudes the man who I love

Thanks to the life that has given so much to me have given Me the ear that in all its wide one Records night and day crickets and canaries Hammers, turbines, barks, showers and the so tender voice of my bienamado

Thanks to the life that has given so much to me have given Me to the sound and the alphabet With him the words that I think and I declare Mother, friend, brother, and light illuminating the route of the core of which I am loving

Thanks to the life that has given so much to me have given Me the march of my feet tired With them I walked cities and pools level Beaches and deserts, mountains and and the house yours, your street and your patio

Thanks to the life that has given so much me gave the heart Me that shakes its frame When I watch the fruit of the human brain When I so watch the good one far from the bad one When I watch the bottom of your clear eyes

Thanks to the life that has given so much to me have given Me the laughter and it has given llanto me Therefore I distinguish Both material happiness of break that forms my song and the song of you that is the same song and the song of all which it is my own song

John