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Thread #136893   Message #3128462
Posted By: GUEST,Robert M
04-Apr-11 - 03:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Bob Dylan)
Subject: Lyr Req: Spanish to English translation for lyric
Hello!

I need help with translating correctly these Spanish lyrics below to English stanzas, that can be understood in some way.

Here is a short sound clip of just the Spanish vocals:
Audio clip


I saw that the DigiTrad had some lyrics by Bob Dylan so I hope I'm not entirely wrong in posting at MudCat.

The tune (song) is: Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) with additional Spanish verse sung by Salvador Duran
Performance: (Willie Nelson & Calexico) Soundtrack to the movie "I'm Not There"


This lyric I don't know if Dylan wrote himself or if Willie Nelson with Calexico (band) just made it up for the session.

Here is the spanish lyrics (with much help from a few helpful web sources (and a few contributed words that I heard were missing from the sources:

"Como el viento en la montaña lo encontré la última vez
tratando encontrar del alma o perdiendo los ver ti
con te medio del abismo el amor que no encontró
en la noche los tiempos con el oro se quedó"


Here is a Google Translate try of the above words:

"As the wind on the mountain I found the last time
trying to find the soul or losing you see
with you through the deep love that is not found
at night time with the gold was"


Here below is some alternative words used:

"Como el viento en la montaña lo encontré la última vez
tratando encontrar del alma o perdiendo los ver ti
como el medio del abismo el amor que no encontró
en la noche los tiempos con el oro se quedó"


The translator changed quite a bit this time:

"As the wind on the mountain I found the last time
trying to find the lost soul or see you
as the means of the deep love that is not found
at night time with the gold was"


The reason why I posted here is that I saw some Spanish speaking here that also spoke English, and they probably know what to make of these word (or maybe some English speaking that know Spanish)


Hope you can help with this small matter.

Thanks.