Lyrics and translation Pete Seeger - Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Yo
soy
un
hombre
sincero,
de
donde
crecen
las
palmas
Je
suis
un
homme
sincère,
de
cette
terre
de
palmiers
Yo
soy
un
hombre
sincero,
de
donde
crecen
las
palmas
Je
suis
un
homme
sincère,
de
cette
terre
de
palmiers
Y
antes
de
morirme
quiero
echar
mis
versos
del
alma
Et
avant
de
mourir
je
veux
partager
ces
poèmes
de
mon
âme
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Mi
verso
es
de
un
verde
claro
y
de
un
carmin
encendido
Mes
vers
sont
d'un
vert
clair
et
d'un
carmin
ardent
Mi
verso
es
de
un
verde
claro
y
de
un
carmin
encendido
Mes
vers
sont
d'un
vert
clair
et
d'un
carmin
ardent
Mi
verso
es
un
ciervo
herido
que
busca
en
el
monte
amparo
Mes
vers
sont
un
cerf
blessé
qui
cherche
refuge
dans
la
montagne
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
I
am
a
truthful
man
from
this
land
of
palm
trees
Je
suis
un
homme
sincère,
de
cette
terre
de
palmiers
Before
dying
I
want
to
share
these
poems
of
my
soul
Avant
de
mourir
je
veux
partager
ces
poèmes
de
mon
âme
My
s
are
light
green
but
they
are
also
flaming
red
Mes
vers
sont
d'un
vert
clair
mais
ils
sont
aussi
rouge
feu
I
cultivate
a
rose
in
June
and
in
January
Je
cultive
une
rose
en
juin
et
en
janvier
For
the
sincere
friend
who
gives
me
his
hand
Pour
l'ami
sincère
qui
me
donne
sa
main
franche
And
for
the
cruel
one
who
would
tear
out
this
heart
with
which
I
live
Et
pour
le
cruel
qui
m'arrache
le
cœur
avec
lequel
je
vis
I
do
not
cultivate
thistles
nor
nettles
I
cultivate
a
white
rose
Je
ne
cultive
pas
les
chardons
ni
les
orties
je
cultive
une
rose
blanche
Cultivo
la
rosa
blanca
en
junio
como
en
enero
Je
cultive
la
rose
blanche
en
juin
comme
en
janvier
Cultivo
la
rosa
blanca
en
junio
como
en
enero
Je
cultive
la
rose
blanche
en
juin
comme
en
janvier
Para
el
amigo
sincero
que
me
da
su
mano
franca
Pour
l'ami
sincère
qui
me
donne
sa
main
franche
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Y
para
el
cruel
que
me
arranca
el
corazon
con
que
vivo
Et
pour
le
cruel
qui
m'arrache
le
cœur
avec
lequel
je
vis
Y
para
el
cruel
que
me
arranca
el
corazon
con
que
vivo
Et
pour
le
cruel
qui
m'arrache
le
cœur
avec
lequel
je
vis
Cardo
ni
ortiga
cultivo
cultivo
la
rosa
blanca
Chardon
ni
ortie
je
cultive
je
cultive
la
rose
blanche
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Con
los
pobres
de
la
tierra
quiero
yo
mi
suerte
echar
C'est
avec
les
pauvres
de
la
terre
que
je
veux
partager
mon
destin
Con
los
pobres
de
la
tierra
quiero
yo
mi
suerte
echar
C'est
avec
les
pauvres
de
la
terre
que
je
veux
partager
mon
destin
El
arroyo
de
la
sierra
me
complace
mas
que
el
mar
Le
ruisseau
de
la
montagne
me
plaît
plus
que
la
mer
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
Guantanamera,
guajira,
Guantanamera
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1
Which Side Are You On?
2 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
3 Mrs. McGrath
4 Blue Mountain Lake
5 Little Boxes
6 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
7 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
8 Guantanamera (Live)
9 Goodnight, Irene
10 Turn Turn Turn
11 We Shall Overcome
12 Hold On
13 Passing Through
14 Oleanna
15 Listen Mr. Bilbo
16 Letter to Eve
17 Foolish Frog
18 Estadio Chile
19 English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy)
20 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
21 Black and White
22 Big Rock Candy Mountain
23 Abiyoyo
24 Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)
25 The Half Hitch
26 Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark
27 Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
28 Mr. Rabbit
29 Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn
30 Didn't Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (Live)
31 Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation)
32 Nonesuch
33 Rambling Boy
34 Guardian Beauty Contest (Attila the Hun)
35 My Gallant Black Bess
36 Battle of New Orleans
37 Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line a-Moving / Join the Picket Line Today (Live)
38 Babevuya
39 OPA Shout
40 Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol)
41 Sea Chanties: Boston "Come-All-Ye" (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler / Johnny Come Down to Hilo
42 Dinky Die (Live)
43 The Preacher and the Slave
44 Bottle Up and Go
45 In Tarrytown
46 Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh)
47 Moorsoldaten
48 Freiheit (Die Thälmann-Kolonne)
49 The Quiz Show
50 Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven
51 Don't Ask What a River Is For
52 Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam
53 You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm Trail / The Farmer is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge) / John Henry (Live)
54 Strawberry Roan
55 I Never Will Marry
56 The Sinking of the Reuben James
57 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
58 Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
59 Puttin' on the Style
60 I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
61 When I First Came to This Land
62 All Mixed Up
63 The Popular Wobbly
64 My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
65 Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme
66 Wasn't That a Time
67 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
68 This Land Is Your Land (Live)
69 In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
70 Follow the Drinking Gourd
71 Down By the Riverside
72 House of the Rising Sun
73 Talking Atom
74 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
75 Quite Early Morning
76 My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
77 Midnight Special
78 John Riley
79 If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
80 From Way Up Here
81 Deep Blue Sea
82 Banks of Marble
83 Shenandoah
84 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
85 Wimoweh
86 Dink's Song
87 Down In the Valley
88 One Grain Of Sand
89 Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
90 Barbara Allen
91 I Had a Rooster
92 A Little of This and That
93 Arrange and Rearrange
94 St. James Infirmary
95 The Death of Harry Simms
96 The Bells of Rhymney
97 To My Old Brown Earth
98 Talking Union
99 Well May the World Go
100 What Did You Learn In School Today?
101 The Water Is Wide
102 Of Time and Rivers Flowing
103 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
104 Hard Times in the Mill
105 Garbage
106 Living In the Country
107 Joe Hill
108 God Bless the Grass
109 If I Had a Hammer
110 Bourgeois Blues
111 Eight-Hour Day
112 Buffalo Gals
113 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
114 Kumbaya
115 The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
116 Que Bonita Bandera
117 Suliram
118 Chorale from Beethoven's 9th Symphony
119 Lonesome Traveler
120 The Banks of Champlain
121 Talking Blues
122 No More Auction Block
123 Roll the Union On
124 Jam on Jerry's Rocks
125 Hard Travelling
126 Oh Worrycare
127 Viva La Quince Brigada
128 My Name is Lisa Kalvelage
129 Battle of Maxton Field
130 There's Better Things to Do
131 Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down
132 We'll All Be A-Doubling
133 Cristo Ya Nacio
134 How About You?
135 Greensleeves
2 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
3 Mrs. McGrath
4 Blue Mountain Lake
5 Little Boxes
6 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
7 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
8 Guantanamera (Live)
9 Goodnight, Irene
10 Turn Turn Turn
11 We Shall Overcome
12 Hold On
13 Passing Through
14 Oleanna
15 Listen Mr. Bilbo
16 Letter to Eve
17 Foolish Frog
18 Estadio Chile
19 English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy)
20 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
21 Black and White
22 Big Rock Candy Mountain
23 Abiyoyo
24 Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)
25 The Half Hitch
26 Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark
27 Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
28 Mr. Rabbit
29 Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn
30 Didn't Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (Live)
31 Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation)
32 Nonesuch
33 Rambling Boy
34 Guardian Beauty Contest (Attila the Hun)
35 My Gallant Black Bess
36 Battle of New Orleans
37 Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line a-Moving / Join the Picket Line Today (Live)
38 Babevuya
39 OPA Shout
40 Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol)
41 Sea Chanties: Boston "Come-All-Ye" (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler / Johnny Come Down to Hilo
42 Dinky Die (Live)
43 The Preacher and the Slave
44 Bottle Up and Go
45 In Tarrytown
46 Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh)
47 Moorsoldaten
48 Freiheit (Die Thälmann-Kolonne)
49 The Quiz Show
50 Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven
51 Don't Ask What a River Is For
52 Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam
53 You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm Trail / The Farmer is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge) / John Henry (Live)
54 Strawberry Roan
55 I Never Will Marry
56 The Sinking of the Reuben James
57 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
58 Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
59 Puttin' on the Style
60 I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
61 When I First Came to This Land
62 All Mixed Up
63 The Popular Wobbly
64 My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
65 Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme
66 Wasn't That a Time
67 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
68 This Land Is Your Land (Live)
69 In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
70 Follow the Drinking Gourd
71 Down By the Riverside
72 House of the Rising Sun
73 Talking Atom
74 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
75 Quite Early Morning
76 My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
77 Midnight Special
78 John Riley
79 If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
80 From Way Up Here
81 Deep Blue Sea
82 Banks of Marble
83 Shenandoah
84 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
85 Wimoweh
86 Dink's Song
87 Down In the Valley
88 One Grain Of Sand
89 Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
90 Barbara Allen
91 I Had a Rooster
92 A Little of This and That
93 Arrange and Rearrange
94 St. James Infirmary
95 The Death of Harry Simms
96 The Bells of Rhymney
97 To My Old Brown Earth
98 Talking Union
99 Well May the World Go
100 What Did You Learn In School Today?
101 The Water Is Wide
102 Of Time and Rivers Flowing
103 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
104 Hard Times in the Mill
105 Garbage
106 Living In the Country
107 Joe Hill
108 God Bless the Grass
109 If I Had a Hammer
110 Bourgeois Blues
111 Eight-Hour Day
112 Buffalo Gals
113 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
114 Kumbaya
115 The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
116 Que Bonita Bandera
117 Suliram
118 Chorale from Beethoven's 9th Symphony
119 Lonesome Traveler
120 The Banks of Champlain
121 Talking Blues
122 No More Auction Block
123 Roll the Union On
124 Jam on Jerry's Rocks
125 Hard Travelling
126 Oh Worrycare
127 Viva La Quince Brigada
128 My Name is Lisa Kalvelage
129 Battle of Maxton Field
130 There's Better Things to Do
131 Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down
132 We'll All Be A-Doubling
133 Cristo Ya Nacio
134 How About You?
135 Greensleeves
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