Name: Pájaro Chogüí
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: Chogüí Bird

Pitahua - Pájaro Chogüí

from Cantando by Various

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Chogüí Bird

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Cuenta la leyenda que en un árbol
se encontraba encaramado
un indiecito guaraní
que sobresaltado
por el grito de su madre
perdió apoyo y cayendo se murió
y que entre los brazos maternales
por extraño sortilegio
en chogüí se convirtió
Chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
qué lindo va qué lindo es
volando por el cielo se alejó
chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
que lindo va que lindo es
volando por el cielo azul turquí
Y desde aquel día
se recuerda al indiecito
cuando se oye como
un eco a los chogüí
es el canto alegre y bullanguero
del gracioso naranjero
que repite su cantar
salta y picotea las naranjas
que es su fruto preferido
repitiendo sin cesar
Chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
qué lindo va qué lindo es
volando por el cielo se alejó
chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
qué lindo va qué lindo es
volando por el cielo azul turquí
volando por el cielo guaraní...

(singable translation)
The legend goes that
a little guaraní indian
who was up in a tree
was startled by his mother’s call
lost his balance and died from the fall
and in his mother’s arms, by some miracle
he became a chogüí
Chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
how well he flies, how pretty he is
flying through the skies he goes away
chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
how well he flies, how pretty he is
flying through the turquoise sky
And ever since that day
we remember the little indian
whenever we hear the chogüí like an eco
it is the loud, happy cry
of the graceful orange-eater
who keeps repeating his song
he swoops and pecks the oranges
his favorite fruit
repeating without an end
Chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
how well he flies, how pretty he is
flying through the skies he goes away
chogüí, chogüí, chogüí
how well he flies, how pretty he is
flying through the turquoise sky

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from Cantando, track released January 1, 2011

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