Baile

La Carmen está bailando
por las calles de Sevilla.
Tiene blancos los cabellos
y brillantes las pupilas.

¡Niñas, corred las cortinas!

En su cabeza se enrosca
una serpiente amarilla,
y va soñando en el baile
con galanes de otros días.

¡Niñas, corred las cortinas!

Las calles están desiertas
y en los fondos se adivinan,
corazones andaluces
buscando viejas espinas.

¡Niñas, corred las cortinas!

Translation(s): ENG FRE GER GER

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Submitted by Ivo Zandhuis

Authorship

• by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Baile", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Tres ciudades, no. 3, first published 1921 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Julián Bautista (1901 - 1961), "Baile" [voice and piano], from Tres cuidades, no. 3. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Baile", from Romancero Gitano, no. 6. [ sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Enrique Beck (1904 - 1974) , copyright © 1953 ENG FRE by Günter Bialas, Hermann Reutter.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Enrique Beck (1904 - 1974) , "Tanz", appears in Drei Städte, no. 3, copyright © ENG FRE by Hermann Reutter.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Richard Gard) , "Dance", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Danse", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2005-01-11.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:11
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Word count: 63

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Dance

Carmen is dancing
in the streets of Seville.
Her hair is white
and her pupils sparkle.
 
Girls, close the curtains!
 
Around her head is entwined
a yellow snake.
And she is dreaming, dancing
with gentlemen from the past.
 
Girls, close the curtains!
 
The streets are deserted
and in the shadows are gleamed
Andalucian hearts
Unearthing old sorrows.
 
Girls, close the curtains!

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• a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Baile", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Tres ciudades, no. 3, first published 1921 FRE GER GER
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Julián Bautista, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2010-02-03.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:03:33
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