PERCAL

Percale (1943)

LYRICS by: Homero Expósito

MUSIC by: Domingo Federico

TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz

Last updated on: 3/7/12

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Sing along with FIORENTINO with ANIBAL TROILO

The percale was the fabric of choice of lower class women and it was a symbol of humility and virtue.

CASTELLANO

ENGLISH

Percal… ¿Te acuerdas del percal? Tenias quince abriles, anhelos de sufrir y amar, de ir al centro, triunfar y olvidar el percal. Percal… Camino del percal, te fuiste de tu casa… Tal vez nos enteramos mal. Solo se que al final te olvidaste el percal. La juventud se fue… Tu casa ya no está… Y en el ayer tirados se han quedado acobardados tu percal y mi pasado. La juventud se fue… Yo ya no espero más… Mejor dejar perdidos los anhelos que no han sido y el vestido de percal. Llorar… ¿Por qué vas a llorar?… ¿Acaso no has vivido, acaso no aprendiste a amar, a sufrir, a esperar, y también a callar? Percal… Son cosas del percal… Saber que estás sufriendo saber que sufrirás aún más y saber que al final no olvidaste el percal. Percal… Tristezas del percal.

Percale … Remember the percale? … You were barely fifteen, longings of suffering and loving, of going downtown, to succeed and forget the percale … Percale … Road of the percale … You left your house Maybe we heard wrong, I only know that at the end You forgot the percale… The youth is gone… Your home isn’t there… And in the past, discarded They’ve remained, cowering Your percale and my past … The youth is gone I no longer wait Best to let be lost The longings that have not been And the percale dress … To cry… Why are you going to cry…? Haven’t you lived, haven’t you learned to love, to suffer, to wait and also to be silent…? Percale … They’re things about the percale … Knowing that you are suffering, Knowing that you’ll suffer even more And knowing that at the end You didn’t forget the percale… Percale … Sadness of the percale …

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