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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

De dónde vienes, amor, mi niño?
Language: Spanish (Español) 
Our translations:  FRE
¿De dónde vienes, amor, mi niño?
De la cresta del duro frío.
¿Qué necesitas, amor, mi niño?
La tibia tela de tu vestido.

¡ Que se agiten las ramas al sol
y salten las fuentes alrededor!

En el patio ladra el perro,
en los árboles canta el viento.
Los bueyes mugen al boyero
y la luna me riza los cabellos.
¿Qué pides, niño, desde tan lejos?

Los blancos montes que hay en tu pecho.
¡Que se agiten las ramas al sol
y salten las fuentes alrededor!

Te diré, niño mío, que sí,
tronchada y rota soy para ti.
¡Cómo me duele esta cintura
donde tendrás primera cuna!
¿Cuándo, mi niño, vas a venir?

Cuando tu carne huela a jazmín.
¿Que se agiten las ramas al sol
y salten las fuentes alrededor!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), no title, appears in Yerma, Act I, first published 1934 [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 George Crumb (1929 - 2022), no title, 1970 [ soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, electric piano, and percussion ], from Ancient Voices of Children, no. 3, New York, Peters [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 22
Word count: 131

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