"Goodbye My Pampas" [Literal Translation]

Good bye, my pampas

I'm going. I'm going to foreign lands.

Goodbye, roads that I have traversed

Rivers, mountains and ravines,

Little hut where I was born.

If we do not see each other again

Beloved land

I want you to know,

When I leave I'll leave my life

Good bye!

When leaving you, my pampas

My eyes and soul are filled,

With the green of your pastures

And the trembling of the stars.

With the song of your winds

And the sobbing of guitars

That I was glad of sometimes

And other times made me cry.

I'm going, my pampas

Good bye!

Notes

Tapera

In the region of the Argentine and Uruguayan plains, the abandoned and dilapidated houses that can be found in the countryside are called taperas.

In addition to the travelling lifestyle of the dwellers, the number of taperas is due to the fact that it is a region characterised by being so flat that it was not normal to detect the flood zones. A major rainy season forced the dwellers to leave the house that was left (sometimes metres) underwater for a few years until the new lagoon dried up.

Vihuela

The vihuela (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈwela]) is a guitar-shaped string instrument from 15th and 16th century Spain, Portugal and Italy, usually with five or six doubled strings.