Il giorno del falco [English translation]

And the day of the hawk came

one morning in September,

they opened the day wide

they quartered his belly

And it was sliding downstream

at the gates of Santiago,

with the claws of fire

and with the eyes of the dragon

And your wife, begging

at the embassy in the grip of the winds

"' Please, give me a sign of hope

in this nest of snakes ."

And at the end of the evening

they turned off the fires in the stadium

"Please, give me a flower so as not to die

and a flag to die."

And the day of the hawk came

under the artillery

of traitors, working for

a police chief

And it was sliding downstream

on the squares and on the Moneda 1

while Victor sang 2

he saw the falcon on its prey

"I do not sing to sing

nor for having a beautiful voice"

you shouted to the people in chains

to alleviate their pains

"I am singing for the guitar

that is right and has sentiment."

while the knives blades

hissed in the wind.

" I don't sing to sing

nor for having a good voice

I'm singing because the guitar

is right , and has sentiment."

1. Palacio de la Moneda, official home of the President of Chile 2. Victor Jara, voice of free Chile, murdered in 1973 in Estadio Chile by soldiers who supported the golpe against President Salvador Allende

• Artist:Pippo Pollina
• Album:Il giorno del falco (1997)