When does the guitar sleep?
I ask to the night
When does the guitar sleep? X2
I, who has seen it pray
It's psalm late at night
The vidalita in the afternoon
The milonga in the morning
The tango burning life
With love, with sorrow or anger
Oh, night, if you only told me
When does the guitar sleep?
What haunts you, guitar
To live insomniac? X2
To tell us your sorrow
With just half a word
To paint a street corner
Or the love of a young woman
A goodbye that is not said
And a forgetfulness that grows
Oh, night if only you told me
When does the guitar sleep?
It becomes all landscape
When it tells us about the country
And on the streets of my neighborhood
Playing, it bleeds out
In its bewitched wood
All distances fit
And it takes us deep into the night
And it encourages and it kills us
Oh, night, if only you told me
When does the guitar sleep?
(Original song by Atahualpa Yupanqui, played and sung here by Santiago Chalar)
