Zamba [English translation]

Zamba, when I hear your accents

my whole soul becomes soil,

I feel you green and damp in the cane fields

handkerchief in the tents when the carnival arrives!

Zamba, when you bring in the wind

the acrid taste of dust cloud

- Thirsty Chaco *, zambas wallow by the quebrachal*--

thirsty Chaco twists by the obrajañ*

at the edge of the ax that grinds them unceasingly.

Oh little zamba under an arch of violinist coyuyos *,

violinist (coyuyos)

lulled by the winds of high plateau

and settled to the heart of the northerners.

Zamba, as the river also love and blood

grow through the veins,

a drum, a guitar are digging your arrival

the moon, handkerchiefs and glances when dancing.

Zamba when they listen to your chords

the whole north* dresses up

--- Zambas grow in my veins when I see you dancing ---

those of the north await you, those of the valley will dance

Catamarca, Salta, Santiago and Tucumán*.