Caetano Veloso sings 'Tonada de Luna llena' (Simón Díaz)

A 'garza mora'

The Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family. It is common and widespread throughout most of South America including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Tonada de Luna llena (1995) en directo

TONADA DE LUNA LLENA (autor, Simón Díaz)

Yo ví de una garza mora
I saw a purple heron

dándole combate a un río.
fighting a river.

Así es como se enamora
That's how your heart falls in love
tu corazón con el mío.
with mine.

Yo ví de una garza mora
I saw a purple heron

dándole combate a un río.
fighting a river.

Así es como se enamora x 2
That's how your heart falls in love
tu corazón con el mío. x 2
with mine.

Luna, luna, luna, luna llena
Moon, moon, moon, full moon

menguante.
waning Moon

Luna, luna, luna, luna llena

Moon, moon, moon, full moon
menguante.

waning Moon

Anda muchacho a la casa, 

Go home, boy
y me trae la carabina,
and bring me the rifle

pa' mata' ese gavilán    (para matar)

to kill that hawk
que no me deja gallina.

that won't leave me any hens.

La luna me está mirando
The Moon is watching me
yo no sé lo que me ve.
I don't know what it sees.

Yo tengo la ropa limpia,
My clothes are clean

ayer tarde la lavé.
I washed them yesterday.

La luna me está mirando,

yo no sé lo que me ve.

Yo tengo la ropa limpia x 2

ayer tarde la lavé. x 2

Luna, luna, luna, luna llena

menguante.

Luna, luna, luna, luna llena

menguante.



Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil






Simón Díaz sings 'Tonada de Luna Llena'



THE MUSIC OF SIMON DIAZ
Tonadas, is a Venezuelan compilation album of 2003, made by Simón Díaz with the seal Latin World. In this album presents his famous tonadas. (musical genre of the Venezuelan plains). Simón Díaz died at 85 in Caracas on 19 February 2014.

Though he projected a folksy image, Mr. Díaz was a scholar of his country’s music, having studied for six years at a conservatory after arriving in Caracas from the countryside in 1949. Like Cecil Sharp in Britain or Alan Lomax in the United States, he roamed his country collecting and annotating folklore, with a special focus on tonadas, the work ballads of cowboys, fishermen and other manual laborers; and coplas, another popular folk music form.

“Sometimes people would ask me why I wanted to dedicate myself to music from the country,” Mr. Díaz said in a 2005 interview, “but that is where I am from, and that is the music I felt inside of me. It was always a part of who I am. I’m inspired by the people, the work, the land, by the raw materials and the truth of nature, by the simple things that were once important.” (read the whole article from the New York Times here)