Guantanamera Meaning

Guantanamera
Song Lyrics

Text translated into English

 

Traditional folk song

origin and lyrics of the song: “Guantanamera”

Guantanamera Meaning

Cuban song

 

The Guantanamera Song originated as a serenade dedicated to a guajira guantanamera (“peasant woman from the city of Guantánamo”) and has as its background the independence struggles that inflamed Cuba in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (in that period first a Spanish colony and later a US colony).

The romantic character of the Guantanamera Song, combined with the patriotic values it expresses, make it one of the most loved songs by Cubans. The refrain of the song “Guantanamera” refers to the Cuban territory of Guantánamo, which since 1898 belongs to the United States of America, which established a military base and a prison there.

Guantanamera Meaning – Lyrics origin 

The better known “official” lyrics are based on selections from the poetry collection Versos Sencillos (Simple Verses) by Cuban poet and independence hero José Martí,
The four verses of the song were adapted from four stanzas of Versos Sencillos, each from a different poem.

Guantanamera Meaning – Music origin

The music for the Guantanamera song is sometimes also attributed to Joseíto Fernández, who claimed to have written it at various dates (consensus puts 1929 as its year of origin), and who used it regularly in one of his radio programs.

 

Below you can read the song Lyrics “Guantanamera” with text translated into English language.

You can read the war song Lyrics “Guantanamera” in original Spanish version, here.

In the menu at the top or at the side you can read the song lyrics: “Guantanamera” translated in other languages: French, German, Italian, Chinese and other.

Below you can find the video song “Guantanamera” singing by Joseito Fernandez .

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Song Lyrics
Guantanamera

 

Text translatred into English

 

I’m an honest man

From where the palm trees grow

I’m an honest man

From where the palm trees grow

And before I die I want

to let my verses out of my soul

 

Chorus:

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

 

My verse is clear green

And burning red

My verse is clear green

And burning red

My verse is a wounded deer

That seeks refuge in the mountain

 

Chorus:

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

 

I cultivate a white rose

In June as in January

I cultivate a white rose

In June as in January

For a true friend

Who gives me his honest hand

 

Chorus:

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

 

And for the cruel one that tears away from me

The heart with which I live

And for the cruel one that tears away from me

The heart with which I live

I cultivate neither thistles nor nettles

I cultivate the white rose

 

Chorus:

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

 

With the poor people of the earth

I want to make my destiny

With the poor people of the earth

I want to make my destiny

The mountain stream

Pleases me more than the ocean

 

Chorus:

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

Guantanamera Guajira Guantanamera

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Guantanamera

Music: Joseíto Fernández

Lyrics: José Martí (Versos Sencillos)

Song Lyrics translated into English

Guantanamera meaning

Traditional folk Cuban song

 

Guantanamera Original Spanish song lyrics > here

 

 

All Traditional Folk Songs Lyrics > here

 

 

Video song
Guantanamera
Joseito Fernandez

 

 

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