Camino De Santiago - "The Pilgrim Song" - by Cecilia Samartin, bestselling novelist

Words and Music by Cecilia Samartin. (More below)

Santiago de Compostela this Pilgrim's path we trod
We receive the rain as blessing
The sun as praise from God
No longer do we count the miles to reach this field of stars
The journey is its own reward
And worship fills the hours

Santiago, Santiago, Santiago pray for me
As I walk upon your camino
Searching for my destiny

Santiago de Compostela the pilgrim saint endows
A staff to guide my wandering
A hat to shade my brow
I ask that when you see me fall down on bended knee
If miracles grow like flowers
Save one small bloom for me
Santiago, Santiago, Santiago pray for me
As I walk upon your camino
Searching for my destiny

www.ceciliasamartin.com

When I was a teenager, I traveled with my family to the land where my grandparents were born in Spain, and it was there that I first saw the pilgrims of Santiago de Compostela. I couldn't imagine what so many people from all over the world were doing along the roads of northern Spain, laden down with backpacks, and carrying long walking sticks that were often adorned with a solitary scallop shell. I soon learned that these enigmatic folk had walked for weeks and even months, traversing hundreds of miles along an ancient route almost 1000 years old.

Cecilia is a bestselling novelist.
Her seven number one bestselling books are published in over 14 languages - the English titles are Broken Paradise, Tarnished Beauty, Vigil, Mofongo, Ladies in White, La Peregrina, Mofongo the Cookbook. She is currently working on the 3rd novel in the Pilgrim Trilogy.
Cecilia Samartin was born in Havana in the midst of Fidel Castro's revolution. She grew up in Los Angeles as a fully bicultural, bilingual American. She studied psychology at UCLA and marriage and family therapy at Santa Clara University. Deeply concerned with the lack of Spanish speakers in her profession, Cecilia has practiced within the Latino communities in some of the most impoverished inner-city areas of San Jose and Los Angeles. She lives with her British-born husband in the Los Angeles area.