 Buena Vista Social Club (1997) [ larger cover art ] |
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Por el camino del sitio mío
un carretero alegre pasó
con su canción que es muy sentida
y muy guajira alegre cantó
Me voy al transbordador
a descargar la carreta (bis)
para cumplir con la meta
de mi pequena labor
A caballo vamos pa'l monte
a caballo vamos pa'l monte (bis)
Yo trabajo sin reposo
para poderme casar (bis)
y si lo llego a lograr
seré un guajiro dichoso
A caballo vamos pa'l monte
a caballo vamos pa'l monte (bis)
Soy guajiro y carretero
y en el campo vivo bien (bis)
porque el campo es el edén
más lindo del mundo entero
A caballo vamos pa'l monte
a caballo vamos pa'l monte (bis)
Chapea el monte, cultiva el llano
recoge el fruto, de tu sudor (bis)
| uilekiek | Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 14:47 MACHOSG wrote: Viva la revolution Cubaneros way to go |
| uilekiek | Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 14:47 MACHOSG wrote: Viva la revolution Cubaneros way to go |
| MJMJ | Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 17:03 Pot, meet kettle. alux wrote: I think its perfectly reasonable to conclude that not liking this song is due to ignorance and narrow-mindedness. |
| MACHOSG (ATHENS,GREECE) | Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 09:21 Viva la revolution Cubaneros |
| nicolewe | Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 09:21  |
| pbjstudios (Addison, IL) | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 13:58 love it!!!! |
| asilbuch (way too close) | Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 11:49 so much fun!!! |
| stevendejong | Posted: Nov 11, 2012 - 03:14 Even if everything was stripped from this song except the bass, this would still be worth listening to. |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 15:10 rockpommel16 wrote: ...thanks,bill....great set......knopfler,blackman,social club.....  ........ditto, time for me to re-up my monthly dues |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 15:05 ...thanks,bill....great set......knopfler,blackman,social club..... ........ |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 01:00 How sweet it will be to be dancing to these fabulous addictive beats at the inimitable Cafe Havana in Cartagena in a couple months from now! |
| marcoshs | Posted: May 21, 2012 - 11:03 Perfect transition!!! From Sean Blackman to Buena Vista Social Club! Those thinks that make it worth to listen RP! |
| stunix (Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | Posted: May 21, 2012 - 11:03 This takes me back, Cuba is so beautiful, We stayed at the Hotel De Nacional in Havana and saw he BVSC show, it was a moment for me. I could live in Cuba so easily stunning country and real people. |
| calypsus_1 (East of Eden) | Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 14:58  Guitarist Eliades Ochoa who sang "El Carretero" on the record Buena Vista Social Club (16 September 1997). In the film, Ochoa is shown playing the song whilst walking alongside a deserted railtrack. |
| cubaninlondon (London) | Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 03:32 michela wrote: Yes, you're completely right! By the way, I love RP too. (An Italian in Spain) Hi, Michela, I've been to Granada a few times. Lovely people and beautiful landscape. Bill should listen to Roberto Fonseca, the fastest-rising jazz musician to come out of Cuba in recent years. I caught him the other night at The Barbican in London and what a show it was! He had as warm-up act the cellist Ayanna (that's another suggestion for you, me ol' mucker, Bill, mate) and as special guest, Fatou, from Mali (although she was born in the Ivory Coast). Fonseca's new album "Yo" ("Me") should suit RP audiences with its mix of Latin jazz, funk and electronica. C;mon, Bill, take a chance, let me know if you want me to send you a few mp3 files!  A Cuban In London. |
| michela (Granada (Spain)) | Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 03:21 cubaninlondon wrote: Hi, Bill. I love RP, but... you know... there's more to Cuban music than just this, you know... Give us a shout and I can e-mail you some mp3 files. Greetings from London. A Cuban In London Yes, you're completely right! By the way, I love RP too. (An Italian in Spain) |
| alux (atop the pyramid) | Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 00:53 I think its perfectly reasonable to conclude that not liking this song is due to ignorance and narrow-mindedness. Byronape wrote: Wait, so because I don't like this particular song either, I'm ignorant and narrow minded too? Doesn't that make you a pretentious ass for assuming you know anything about me simply because I dislike something you clearly like? That's just hateful. |
| cubaninlondon (London) | Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 08:23 Hi, Bill. I love RP, but... you know... there's more to Cuban music than just this, you know... Give us a shout and I can e-mail you some mp3 files. Greetings from London. A Cuban In London |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 18:49 heliosweb wrote: How ignorant and narrow minded. Makes me want to visit one of those Carribbean isles, hang out with the people and pick up some local lingo, enjoy the local dishes, luxuriate on the beaches, and just have a mellow good time. Exploring other cultures is NOT boring. Open your mind, or... (sigh). Wait, so because I don't like this particular song either, I'm ignorant and narrow minded too? Doesn't that make you a pretentious ass for assuming you know anything about me simply because I dislike something you clearly like? That's just hateful. |
| ozzie1313 | Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 18:47 Ry Cooder is into everything - Mr. Eclectic. |
| skyguy (CO) | Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 14:24 Tamster wrote: "A mind is like a parachute.Sometimes they just don't work" Skratch Garrison |
| terrapin52 | Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 03:16 I can translate this for you: "Don't ask me to work. I am not Mexican. I'm Cuban." |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Oct 02, 2011 - 13:43 heliosweb wrote: How ignorant and narrow minded. Makes me want to visit one of those Carribbean isles, hang out with the people and pick up some local lingo, enjoy the local dishes, luxuriate on the beaches, and just have a mellow good time. Exploring other cultures is NOT boring. Open your mind, or... (sigh). Someone does not like a song. Thus, they are "ignorant and narrow minded". Profound. Does this mean 2+2=5 in your world? |
| Tippster (Washington, DC) | Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 15:48 nabspat wrote: Un poco mas de Ibrahim Ferrer, por favor- His is a long list of splendid performances... Nope - it's Eliades Ochoa singing this song. |
| Andy_B (aboard MV "Horizon," east coast Fla) | Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 14:18 heliosweb wrote: How ignorant and narrow minded. Makes me want to visit one of those Carribbean isles, hang out with the people and pick up some local lingo, enjoy the local dishes, luxuriate on the beaches, and just have a mellow good time. Exploring other cultures is NOT boring. Open your mind, or... (sigh). I lived the Caribbean life for 15 years and loved it,...the music too. Zappa said it: "open your mind"...you might be pleasantly suprised at what you see. |
| Tamster (Thousand Islands Canada) | Posted: Jul 31, 2011 - 18:31 heliosweb wrote: How ignorant and narrow minded. Makes me want to visit one of those Carribbean isles, hang out with the people and pick up some local lingo, enjoy the local dishes, luxuriate on the beaches, and just have a mellow good time. Exploring other cultures is NOT boring. Open your mind, or... (sigh). "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." — Frank Zappa |
| bman (stuck in a box) | Posted: May 29, 2011 - 17:29 heliosweb wrote: How ignorant and narrow minded. Makes me want to visit one of those Carribbean isles, hang out with the people and pick up some local lingo, enjoy the local dishes, luxuriate on the beaches, and just have a mellow good time. Exploring other cultures is NOT boring. Open your mind, or... (sigh). i have to agree |
| run4more (The cave) | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 13:38 Here's a picture album based on the CD booklet that includes photos, musician credits, lyrics and translations. As I mentioned in my post regarding Chan Chan five of the musicians who performed on this album are sadly no longer with us. |
| heliosweb (New Mexico USA) | Posted: May 13, 2011 - 15:04 LastChance wrote: How boring. How ignorant and narrow minded. Makes me want to visit one of those Carribbean isles, hang out with the people and pick up some local lingo, enjoy the local dishes, luxuriate on the beaches, and just have a mellow good time. Exploring other cultures is NOT boring. Open your mind, or... (sigh). |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 12:10 Mucho gusto! Mas por favor!  |
| nabspat (CentralUtah) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 10:09 Un poco mas de Ibrahim Ferrer, por favor- His is a long list of splendid performances... |
| ccwcool (O-HI-O) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 09:55 NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!  |
| Whimary (Central Calif) | Posted: Feb 18, 2011 - 13:13 They're terrific...it doesn't get much better than this. |
| nojyor | Posted: Jan 02, 2011 - 07:07 thanks for tthe traslation i like alot more with it  |
| run4more (The cave) | Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 11:58 And in English (from the booklet that came with the CD): Along the track by my house A cart-driver passed With his sentimental songs The Guajiro sang: I'm going to the crossing To unburden my load I'm going to the crossing To unburden my load There I'll reach the end Of my crushing labour. Ride on up the mountain. I work without rest So I can marry I work without rest So I can marry And if I can achieve that I'll be a happy man. Ride on up the mountain. I am a Guajiro and a cart driver I live well off the land Because the countryside is paradise The most beautiful place on earth Work the mountain, cultivate the plain Reap the fruits of your labour. |
| 4merdj (donde el viento se devuelve) | Posted: Dec 01, 2010 - 16:13 dasfeuer wrote: A caballo vamos pa´l Monte!!! Así es, Guajiro!  |
| dasfeuer (Loading...) | Posted: Oct 15, 2010 - 12:18 A caballo vamos pa´l Monte!!! |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Sep 19, 2010 - 10:00 scraig wrote: perfect...as many of us on the left coast pack up to head out on the carretero. Close. A carretero is a cart driver; a carretera is a road. |
| ceviche (Lima, Peru) | Posted: Aug 12, 2010 - 16:53 Great tune, even if overplayed. I am told that in Cuba, you hear this album in every hotel & resto, all the time. |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Aug 12, 2010 - 16:53 perfect...as many of us on the left coast pack up to head out on the carretero. |
| Det (Lower Saxony Germany) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 11:42 miss a cigar? |
| LastChance (Sometimes Fort Worth, sometimes Dallas) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 11:35 How boring. |
| shutter (You can't get here from there) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 11:35 Funny, I was just listening to this track on the ride to work this morning. Bumm bumm... |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 11:34 LOVE IT. |
| ortallcowgirl (Globe, Arizona) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 11:34 It is too bad that you can not accept that radio paradise plays all types of music. I feel like moving my hips and dancing a bit. Despite the fact that I am work. I do love Buena Vista Social Club. Segue wrote: could you just eliminate all this sort of stuff and be near-perfect? Brazilian okay but the more salsa-ey, the more I head for the hills, senor. Muchas gracias. MORE DREAMY FUNK PLEASE LESS ANNOYING GRATING TEQUILA MUSIC. |
| Segue (Almost Paradise) | Posted: Jun 09, 2010 - 22:45 could you just eliminate all this sort of stuff and be near-perfect? Brazilian okay but the more salsa-ey, the more I head for the hills, senor. Muchas gracias. MORE DREAMY FUNK PLEASE LESS ANNOYING GRATING TEQUILA MUSIC. |
| EssexTex (Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 07:44 Were they just singing "Eduardo broke my moped"?!!! |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 00:52 Nice music, the lyrics...?? |
| dalebryan (Melbourne, Florida) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 07:42 El WHATEVER!  |
| vit | Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 10:01 Man all cuban music just sounds the same. (Kidding kidding. Just mocking a post for the song that previously played). |