La banda del circo | ¡Durante todo el verano, los muchachos

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by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954)

Translation © by Alfredo García

The Circus Band

Language: English

Our translations: SPA

All summer long, we boys
dreamed 'bout big circus joys!
Down Main street, comes the band, 
Oh! "Aint it a grand and glorious noise!"

Horses are prancing, knights advancing;
Helmets gleaming, pennants streaming,
Cleopatra's on her throne!
That golden hair is all her own.

Where is the lady all in pink?
Last year she waved to me I think,
Can she have died? Can! that! rot!
She is passing but she sees me not.

Text Authorship:

by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The Circus Band", 2006 [medium voice or high voice and piano], from The Circus Band and Other Delights, no. 1 [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "The Circus Band", 1894, from Five Street Songs, no. 5 [ sung text checked 1 time]

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SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "La banda del circo", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 74

La banda del circo

Language: Spanish (Español) after the English

 ¡Durante todo el verano, los muchachos
 soñábamos con las grandes alegrías del circo!
 Por la calle Mayor, llega la banda,
 ¡ah! "¿No es un ruido magnífico y maravilloso?"

 Los Caballos hacen cabriolas, los Caballeros avanzan;
 los Cascos relucen, los Banderines ondean,
 ¡Cleopatra está en su trono!
 Ese pelo dorado es todo suyo.

 ¿Dónde está la dama toda vestida de rosa?
 Creo que el año pasado me saludó con la mano,
 ¿es posible que haya muerto? ¡Es posible! ¡Eso! ¡Tonterías!
 ¡Está pasando, pero no me ve!

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Translation from English to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2004 by Alfredo García, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in English by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954)
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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 86