Agua Santa Translations

La Procesión (The Procession)

Chorus: Listen to the drums
The Brotherhood is coming
Those who walk in the Light
The light of faithfulness

Chorus: Listen to the drums
The procession is coming
Those who walk in the shade
The shade of reverence

Chorus: Listen to the drums
The Brotherhood is coming
Those who walk in the Light
The light of charity

Chorus: Listen to the drums
The Fraternity is coming
Those who walk in the shade
The shade of antiquity

Chorus: “Step to one side when they pass through here!
For those who paved the way for us, the crowds will part!”

Ad lib: “Hear the song of the procession, the procession is arriving!”


Buscando y Pidiendo (Searching & Asking)

I am searching for a tree,
I don’t need to shade myself from the sun!
I asking for its beauty,
A prayer to nature!
I am searching for a tree,
Because I want to make a drum,
I am asking for the soul of the tree,
I want to make a drum!

Chorus: Aña, Aña, Aña, Aña,

I am searching for a goat,
That I don’t have to feed!
I asking for its beauty,
A prayer to nature!
I am searching for a goat,
So that my drum can speak!
I am asking for the voice of the goat,
So that my sound may astound!
I am searching for a goat,
So that my drum can speak!

Nadie me habló (Nobody Spoke to Me)

I can still hear, all of my sons crying
I can still hear, the women screaming
I remember that day, when my life thus passed
There, How I recall that day, when thus I died
And nobody spoke to me, when my life thus passed
Chorus: And nobody spoke to me!
I recall that day, when my life thus arrived
And nobody spoke to me, when thus I died
When they put me in the ground, nobody spoke to me
I recall that day, when the hour thus ended
I recall that day
Chorus: When nobody spoke to me!
There, How I recall that day
Chorus: When thus I died!
They buried me in the ground but nobody spoke to me
Where my book thus closes, they buried my in the ground
But nobody spoke to me
Chorus: when my life thus passed!
They gave me to the silence, nobody spoke to me
I waited in the ground
But nobody spoke to me!