Paroles et traduction Roba Estesa - Podries

Podries

Si haguessis nascut en una altra terra
Podries ser blanc, podries ser negre
Un altre país fora casa teva
I diries sí en un altra llengua

T'hauries criat d'una altra manera
Més bona, potser més dolenta
Tindries més sort o potser més pega
Tindries amics i jocs d'una altra mena

Duries vestits de sac o de seda
Sabates de pell o tosca espardenya
O aniries nu perdut per la selva
Podries llegir contes i poemes
O no tenir llibres ni saber de lletra

Podries menjar cases llamineres
O només crostons secs de pa negre
Podries podries per tot això pensa
Que importa tenir les mans ben obertes

I ajudar qui ve fugint de la guerra
Fugint del dolor i de la pobresa
Si tu fossis nat a la seva terra
La tristesa d'ell podria ser teva

Duries vestits de sac o de seda
Sabates de pell o tosca espardenya
O aniries nu perdut per la selva
Podries llegir contes i poemes
O no tenir llibres ni saber de lletra

You Could Be

If you had been born in a different land
You could be white, you could be black
Another land beyond your home
And you would say yes in another tongue

You would have been raised in another way
Better, perhaps worse
You would have more luck or perhaps more pain
You would have friends and games of another kind

You would wear clothes of sackcloth or silk
Shoes of leather or coarse sandals
Or you would go naked, lost in the jungle
You could read stories and poems
Or have no books and never learn to read

You could eat gingerbread houses
Or only dry crusts of black bread
You could, you could, for all this, think
That it is important to keep your hands open wide

And help those who come fleeing from war
Fleeing from pain and poverty
If you had been born in their land
Their sadness could be yours

You would wear clothes of sackcloth or silk
Shoes of leather or coarse sandals
Or you would go naked, lost in the jungle
You could read stories and poems
Or have no books and never learn to read