Pablo [English translation]

My father [was] buried a year ago,

nobody takes care of the vineyard anymore.

He had verdigris1 on his short fingernails

and too many children to cradle.

And I did get on the train, it was the right thing to do,

there was no cord on my luggage,

only a little love was holding it together,

only a little resentment was holding it together.

My Spanish colleague hears nothing, sees nothing, yet he talks

about his fighting rooster and the milk farm becomes [his] land.

He used to talk in a strange way and at first I couldn't understand him

but I did share my bread with him

and the master didn't seem like a bad person.

They paid Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They paid Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They paid Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They paid Pablo, Pablo is alive.

I can build castles with my hands

I can build motorways and talk to Pablo

He knows his way around women and betrays his wife

with women and wine and the green of Switzerland.

And if he fell one day, he fell by accident

thinking of his rooster, or his wife who got fatter - as seen in the pics.

He used to talk in a strange way and at first I couldn't understand him

but I did share my tobacco/pot with him

and the master didn't seem like a bad person.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive, alive, alive, alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

They killed Pablo, Pablo is alive.

1. copper sulfate is used as a fungicide on grapes

• Artist:Francesco De Gregori
• Album:Rimmel (1975)