06-12-2009, 11:55 AM
For those reading this who know little of Chile Victor Jara was a good man and a kind man. A musician. He was no threat to anyone at any time but the fascists were so afraid of him and his words and music that they rounded him up with thousands of others, of whom they were also so afraid, and put him in a foot ball stadium. He sang songs in the stadium to all the other prisoners to give them strength. One by one most of them were taken to be tortured and most disappeared or were murdered. To punish him for the beauty he created and to make sure that Victor would never play his guitar again they broke all his fingers and his arms. Then they killed him.
Christy Moore: Tribute to Victor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGtCeyu9hxQ
Zamba de Che:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...d=16128830
Zamba del Che
para sojuzgar los pueblos, to subjugate the people,
Derecha vivir en paz (The Right to Live in Peace) He dedicated to the people of Vietnam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdBMY3R4C...r_embedded
The right to live in peace
Christy Moore: Tribute to Victor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGtCeyu9hxQ
Zamba de Che:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...d=16128830
Zamba del Che
( Rubén Ortiz )
(Rubén Ortiz) Vengo cantando esta zamba
I come singing this zamba con redobles libertarios,
with the rhythm of libertymataron al guerrillero
they killed the guerillaChe comandante Guevara.
Commander Che Guevara. Selvas, pampas y montañas
Forests, grasslands and mountains patria o muerte es su destino.
land or death is our destiny. Que los derechos humanos
Human rights los violan en tantas partes,
they violate in so many parts, en América Latina
in Latin America domingo, lunes y martes.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Nos imponen militares
On us they impose military para sojuzgar los pueblos, to subjugate the people,
dictadores, asesinos,
dictators, murderers, gorilas y generales.
goons and generals. Explotan al campesino
They exploit the peasant al minero y al obrero,
the miner and the laborer, cuánto dolor su destino,
how much pain his destiny, hambre miseria y dolor..
hunger, misery and pain .. Bolívar le dio el camino
Bolivar lead the way y Guevara lo siguió:
and Guevara followed: liberar a nuestro pueblo
to free our people del dominio explotador.
of the world of exploitation. A Cuba le dio la gloria
Cuba has given the glory de la nación liberada.
of a free nation. Bolivia también le llora
Bolivia also cries su vida sacrificada.
and sacrificed his life. San Ernesto de la Higuera
Saint Ernesto of the Higuera le llaman los campesinos,
farmers call it, selvas, pampas y montañas,
forests, grasslands and mountains, patria o muerte su destino.
our land or death is his destiny . Derecha vivir en paz (The Right to Live in Peace) He dedicated to the people of Vietnam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdBMY3R4C...r_embedded
The right to live in peace
( Víctor Jara )
(Victor Jara) El derecho de vivir
The right to live poeta Ho Chi Minh,
poet Ho Chi Minh que golpea de Vietnam
knocks Vietnam a toda la humanidad.
with all mankind. Ningún cañón borrará
No cannon can eraseel surco de tu arrozal.
the groove of your rice. El derecho de vivir en paz.
The right to live in peace. Indochina es el lugar
Indochina is the place mas allá del ancho mar,
beyond the wide sea, donde revientan la flor
where the flower burst con genocidio y napalm.
with genocide and napalm. La luna es una explosión
The moon is an explosion que funde todo el clamor.
that fuses all the clamor. El derecho de vivir en paz.
The right to live in peace. Tío Ho, nuestra canción
Uncle Ho, our song es fuego de puro amor,
is a fire of pure love, es palomo palomar
is a dove aloft olivo de olivar.
olive of the grove. Es el canto universal
It is the universal song cadena que hará triunfar,
string that will succeed, el derecho de vivir en paz.
the right to live in peace.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.