La nieve corta el aire desde lo helado,/ hasta que se une con el mar africano/ en movimiento cambia, es frío y es nombre./ La razón por la que voy y vengo es la misma./ Un juego animal para mí,/ lo llamas lluvia/ pero el nombre humano/ no significa cagarse en un árbol./ Si no te preocupa el calor en tu río y/ lengua de tenedor habla desde mí./ Nada como una anguila fantástica serpiente./ Ten mi amor cuando sea libre./ Siéntete eléctrico conmigo./ Lo llamas en alto/ pero la muchedumbre humana/ no significa cagar en un árbol./ Cambia las cuerdas y desliza las notas./ Cambia el puente y baja la cadena./ Cambia las notas y la novia canta./ Gente que come fuego,/ juguetes creciente del sol,/ la energía muere sin calor corporal./ Los carámbanos estropean tu arma./ Riega mis raíces lo natural/ fuente natural al mar./ Las fuentes de azufre hacen que mi cuerpo flote/ como un barco hecho de troncos de un árbol./ Las secuoyas me hablan,/ dilo claramente,/ el nombre humano/ no significa cagar en un árbol./ La nieve llamó al agua que viene violenta./ Maldice el final del arroyo./ Demasiado frío en un lugar rompe./ Ese es el porqué podrás saber lo que quiero decir./ Considera qué pequeño eres/ comparado con tu grito./ El sueño humano/ no significa cagar en un árbol.

Celso Emilio Ferreiro Míguez is an important poet and renovator of Galician language and poetry. Born 1912, he was a follower of Curros Enríquez' poetry. His first book was released in 1936; his second book, at 1941, was his only work in Spanish: Al aire de tu vuelo (At your flight's air). But his great book, at least the most famous, is Longa noite de pedra (Long night of stone). The poem is as symbolic of those darkyears that many people, especially Galician, still refers to the francoist ages as the long night of stone. He died in 1979, in Vigo.

Celso Emilio Ferreiro's poetry is one of the strongest and purest of the poetry against Franco's regime not only in Galician, but in all the Spanish lands. As the poems of contemporary as Blas de Otero, Gabriel Celaya, Jesús López Pacheco or the Basque Gabriel Aresti, among others, Celso Emilio's poetry talks about justice, about the man, the people; he talks about Galicia, about the Galician people, about the Galician language. Most of the Galician songwriters made songs with his poems. For this reasons, Celso Emilio Ferreiro is not only one of the best Galician poets, but one of the best of the Universal poetry.

Xulio Formoso is an emigrant Galician songwriter from Venezuela. From Venezuela, like his Galician countrymen in Spain, Xulio sings in Galician Celso Emilio Ferreiro and other's poems. Although his career is not very known, is really intense. In Venezuela, he reocrded the LP Galicia canta ("Galicia sings"), with his own songs, but also with other Galician songwriters' song. Celso Emilio colaborated in this record, giving him this poem, but also playing the pandeiro in "Pandeirada ao Che" ("Pandeirada to the "Che"; a pandeiro is a large tambourine from Galicia, and pandeirada is a kind of popular dance, rythm and music). Actually, Xulio is still in active. You can hear a fragment clicking here.

Not as other Celso Emilio Ferreiro's poems that later became songs, this poems was writen for Xulio Formoso could sing it.

O dedo na chaga

Estas palabras que digo
abróllanme dende o fondo
porque eu endexamáis escondo
a canción que vai conmigo.

Cos meus cantares consigo
ser coma o vento lixeiro,
ninguén me marca o sendeiro,
ninguén me dicta a canción,
teño limpo o corazón
pra vivir ceibe e senlleiro.

Meu canto rudo e sinceiro
co badoco non se avén.
Desprezo a todo o que ten
alma servil de logreiro
sen outro Deus que o diñeiro.

Meu canto a ninguén falaga,
ninguén por cantar me paga,
soio o povo, meu irmán,
aplaude o meu canto chan,
se poño o dedo na chaga.

The finger on the sore spot

These words I say/ bloom from my depth/ because I never hide/ the song that comes with me.// With my songs I get/ to be as the light wind,/ no-one marks me the road,/ no-one dictates me the song,/ I have the heart clean/ for living free and alone.// My abrupt and true song/ does not reconcile with the blockhead./ I despise everyone who has/ usurer servile soul/ without another God but the money.// My song flatters to nobody,/ no-one pays me for singing,/ only the People, my brother,/ acclaims my straight forward song,/ if I put a finger ont the sore spot.

Celso Emilio Ferreiro

music by Xulio Formoso

You can read the Spanish translation by clicking here

Xerardo Moscoso was one of the first members of the Galician songwriters colective Voces Ceibes. Born in Mexico, being son of Galician emigrants, came to Galicia to study and there he became in a significative member of Voces Ceibes. Between 1968 and 1970, he recorded two EPs, with own writings. Due to politicals troubles, Xerardo leave Galicia and goes to Switzerland, and due to his Mexican nationality, even in 1976 Spanish authorities denied him permision for living in Spain. Between 1976 and 1977, he recorded in France his only LP, Acción Galega ("Galician Action", a name of a nationalist poet Ramón Cabanillas' poem), in which was included a version from this Celso Emilio and Xulio song.

The Nova Canción Galega (New Galician Song) was a literary-musical movement of young people who were against Franco's regime and wanted to rescue culture and language of Galicia. In this movement are the collective Voces Ceibes and the Venezuelan Xulio Formoso. In the 70's decade, the movement get folklorist attitude, instead many of them rejected it in the beginnings.

Voces Ceibes (Free Voices) was the first collective of the Nova Canción Galega. Their objectives were make an opposition to Franco's regime with music and poems of the great all of times Galician poets and make a vindication of Galician culture, language and literature. But they rejected to use Galician folklore due to the illegitimacy use that Franco's regime make of it as an instrument of cohesion of all the Spanish lands.  Despite of this, in the 70's, they adopted finally the Galician folk-music for making art and vindications.

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