Jose Hernandez José Hernández
poet · Buenos Aires, Argentina · 1834–1886
A poet and journalist who grew up among gauchos on the ranches of the pampas. He wrote the long song Martin Fierro in the voice of a gaucho dragged off to the frontier.
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Here I settle down to sing to the beat of my guitar, for a man kept from his sleep by an uncommon sorrow, like the solitary bird, finds comfort in his song.
Aquí me pongo a cantar Al compás de la vigüela, Que el hombre que lo desvela Una pena estraordinaria Como la ave solitaria Con el cantar se consuela.
The Gaucho Martin Fierro, the first stanza
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