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Singer: Edgardo DONATOSinger 2: Carlos VivánComposer: Osvaldo DonatoAuthor: Sergio Sosa

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Lyrics
Cerquita ´e la senda
Que va al camposanto,
Sobre la ladera
Del cerro, el clamor,
Está la tapera
Que el gaucho respeta,
Como un exponente
De pena y dolor.
 
Allí vive alegre
Una paisanita,
La de ojos de ensueño
Y labios en flor,
Que ingenua creía
Que las margaritas,
A las campesinas
Les hablan de amor.
 
Una tarde aciaga
Llegó un forastero,
De altiva presencia
En su redomón,
Se hincó de rodillas
Le dijo: “Te amo,
Con la idolatría
Que amo a mi facón”.
 
La virgen serrana
Creyó en los fervores,
El palabrerío
Y la adulación,
Y le dio, inocente
Con gran alegría,
La llave dorada
De su corazón.
English translation
Near the path
that goes to the cemetery,
On the hillside
Of the hill, the clamor,
There is the tapera
That the gaucho respects,
As an exponent
Of sorrow and pain.
 
There lives happily
A little country girl,
The one with dreamy eyes
And lips in bloom,
Who naively believed
That the daisies,
To the peasant girls
Speak to them of love.
 
One fateful afternoon
A stranger arrived,
Of haughty presence
In his redomón,
Kneeled down on his knees
He said to him: "I love you,
With the idolatry
That I love my facon."
 
The mountain virgin
Believed in the fervors,
The verbiage
And the flattery,
And gave her, innocent
With great joy,
The golden key
Of his heart.

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