Machete Song Download
Candido Prabhu
I spent eighteen months of my three-year South American adventure in the Colombian wilderness, in a mountain village near the infamous Medellín. As a bluesman, I was impressed by local songs, whose lyrics would wake up even Oblomov from his lethargy. I decided to translate the juiciest pieces and bring them to you in the series Songs Written with a Machete.
Nothing is black and white, they say. But in the case of the narco-war waged by Pablo Escobar against everyone, it was black and white. Either evil or good. Plata o plomo. Money or death. Octavio Mesa, mentioned in the second part of our series, also sang about the war between good and evil. His song Le Pelea Con El Diablo is a chillingly honest confession of a man severely tested by a bloody era.
As I am a wanderer and nobody terrifies me,
when I take out my machete, the earth begins to tremble.
Yesterday I fought the devil, who they say is very fierce,
I hit him with a machete so hard that it surprised me.
I threw away my bag and my poncho and I sang to myself,
and with the first machete blow, I knocked off his tail.
We continued the fight and before people saw it,
with the tip of the machete, I painted his skull.
When the devil was hurt, he turned into a spider,
he came at me like a shot and almost, almost caught me.
Then, I passed the machete to my left hand
and with a strong machete blow, I knocked off his first leg.
...i borrowed the above phrase from my friend maria popova's blog ( - it's awesome)...i think the phrase pretty much explains itself. i put a lot of time and effort into this blog and want you to have it and read it for free. if you want to give me some help for the time and effort, THANK YOU. you can either kick me back directly through paypal using the button below, or if you want to take some MUSIC TOO (even better, yay!) go to the store section and kick me back through paying what you want for an album or a song.
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