“Adiós a la cantora” Lorena Erpel Arriba en el universo Hay bailes y un gran festejo Porque la abuela cantora Deja el cuerpo y ya reto
“Adiós a la cantora”
Lorena Erpel
Arriba en el universo
Hay bailes y un gran festejo
Porque la abuela cantora
Deja el cuerpo y ya retorna
Porque la abuela cantora
Deja el cuerpo y ya retorna
Se va hermosa, una muñeca
Con un vestido floreado
Con su boquita entintada
Y un rosario entre las manos
Con su boquita entintada
Y un rosario entre las manos
Me has dejado el alma llena
De canciones y azucenas
Ay, cantora libertaria
Vas al monte, vas al agua
Y la voz con la que canto
Es tu más sagrada herencia
La llevo con fuerza adentro
Y siento el fuego, siento el viento
Siento al bosque, siento al rayo
Hoy tu canto va en mi canto
El gran banquete preparan
Manjares, rosas, primores
Brindo por las señoritas y también por los señores
Brindo por las señoritas y también por los señores
Que linda que está la mesa
Su madre es quien la decora
Que suerte los invitados
Va llegando la cantora
Que suerte los invitados
Va llegando la cantora
Me has dejado el alma llena
De canciones y azucenas
Ay, cantora libertaria
Vas al monte, vas al agua
Y la voz con la que canto
Es tu más sagrada herencia
La llevo con fuerza adentro
Y siento el fuego, siento el viento
Me has dejado el alma llena
De canciones y azucenas
Ay, cantora libertaria
Vas al monte, vas al agua
Y la voz con la que canto
Es tu más sagrada herencia
La llevo con fuerza adentro
Y siento el fuego, siento el viento
Siento al bosque, siento al rayo
Hoy tu canto va en mi canto
A momento of transcendence and inspiration
This song came to me while I was painting mi great-grandmother’s lips as her body lied dead and we were dressing her up for her funereal rite.
She was also a singer and I inherited this gift from her. We had a very special and magical conection and of course that, as I sing and create music it is an honor as I know that it is a legacy of my mother’s lineage.
The ritual moment as I was dressing up mi great-grand mother with all her daughters and my mother (her grand-daughter) it was so moving and poetic. It was magical, it was then that this song came to me, I went up to the second floor and I wrote it immediately. It is a tune that is in octosyllabic.
This song reminds me of how important our ancestors are, and that all they did was not in vain, it made sense and transcendence for us who come after them.
Besides it is an ode to all the women who sing to something, in the case of my great-grandmother she sang songs, but there are other women who sang to freedom, to the well being of their families, and so much more.
For the video of this song I called on my social networks for people who follow me to send photographs and videos of some grandmother or ancestor whom they would want to pay homage.
I received a lot, and the video is a compilation of many women who are today in another dimension and who have left a permanent legacy for us, we stay on Earth paying homage to them with our actions and our laughter as we live fully and happy just the way they wanted us to be.
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