Paroles et traduction Jorge Luis Chacin - Si Usted la Viera

Si Usted la Viera

Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela, caraaachaa

El confesor me dice que no te quiera
Y yo le digo padre si usted la viera
Dice que tus amores me vuelven loco
Que a mi deber no atiendo
Que duermo poco, que duermo poco

Dice que nuestras muchas conversaciones
Fomentan en la aldea murmuraciones
Dice que no quererte fácil me fuera
Y yo le digo padre si usted la viera, si usted la viera

En vano le aseguro que eres tan pura
Hay que rezar delante de tu hermosura
Que eres gentil airosa cual azucena
Que nacen de tus labios nardo y verbena

Que son lluvias de mayo tus frondos risos
Y que vivir no puedo sin tus hechizos
El me dice mu husco que es gran quimera
Y yo le digo padre si usted la viera

Confesando que el alma tengo en tus ojos
Me dijo el padre cura con mil enojos
Que un pecado tan grande no perdonaba
Y que si te quería me condenaba, me condenaba

Entonces con amante dulce arrebato
Del pecho en que lo llevo saque un retrato
Y el cura ve tu imagen luz y alma mía
Contemplándolo absorto se sonreía
Él sonreía

Esa sí que refleja santos amores
Creyó que eras la virgen de los dolores
Esa sí que es hermosa que luz destella
Y yo le dije "padre pues esta es ella"

Olvidado ya el cura de su corona
Dijo abriendo los ojos, linda persona
Si es buena como hermosa que en paz te quiera
Y yo le dije padre si usted la viera

Esa sí que refleja santos amores
Creyó que eras la virgen de los dolores
Esa sí que es hermosa que luz destella
Y yo le dije "padre pues esta es ella"

Olvidado ya el cura de su corona
Dijo abriendo los ojos, linda persona
Si es buena como hermosa que en paz te quiera
Y yo le dije padre si usted la viera

Si usted la viera

Orémos

If You Saw Her

Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela, caraaachaa

The confessor tells me not to love you
And I tell him father if you saw her
He says that your loves make me crazy
That I do not attend my duty
That I sleep little, that I sleep little

He says that our many conversations
Encourage murmurs in the village
He says that not loving you would be easy for me
And I tell him father if you saw her, if you saw her

In vain I assure him that you are so pure
One has to pray before your beauty
That you are gentle graceful like a lily
That spikenard and verbena are born of your lips

That your exuberant curls are May showers
And that I cannot live without your charms
He tells me my search is a great chimera
And I tell him father if you saw her

Confessing that I have my soul in your eyes
The priest told me with a thousand annoyances
That he did not forgive such a great sin
And that if I loved you he would condemn me, condemn me

Then with sweet lover's ecstasy
From the chest in which I carry it I took out a portrait
And the priest sees your image light and my soul
Contemplating it absorbed, he smiled
He smiled

That one does reflect holy loves
He believed you were the virgin of sorrows
That one is beautiful that light sparkles
And I said to him "father because this is her"

The priest already forgotten about his crown
Said with eyes wide open, beautiful woman
If she is as good as she is beautiful may she love you in peace
And I told him father if you saw her

That one does reflect holy loves
He believed you were the virgin of sorrows
That one is beautiful that light sparkles
And I said to him "father because this is her"

The priest already forgotten about his crown
Said with eyes wide open, beautiful woman
If she is as good as she is beautiful may she love you in peace
And I told him father if you saw her

If you saw her

Let us pray