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Thread #18417   Message #2266924
Posted By: Mysha
19-Feb-08 - 07:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: El Condor Pasa (in Spanish or Portuguese)
Subject: RE: El Condor Pasa
Hi,
It would seem it depends upon the number of (grace)notes played (and on the number of sylables in the names), but it would appear to be something like this:


Oh, mighty Condor, master of the skies
Take me along, to where I belong
Oh, mighty Condor.

I long to be back where the mountains rise
In Inca lands, to shake my brothers' hands
Oh mighty Condor.

Chorus
Be sure of it my brothers I'll come home,
to Cuzco, nave of the world,
Once more together brothers we will roam,
in Machupicchu and Huayna-picchu
(in Huayna-picchu).


Since the tunes appears to be longer than the (translated) words, I guess you'd repeat first three lines and chorus. Other than that, at the end of the each block a the "echoing" notes are left to the instruments, which should bring out that melancholy sound that made the song so popular.
                                                                Mysha (Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg)