El Cóndor Pasa || If I Could || Полет кондора

«Полёт кондора» (исп. El Cóndor Pasa) — песня из одноимённой сарсуэлы, написанная перуанским композитором Даниэлем Роблесом в 1912 году на мотив традиционных народных мелодий жителей Анд.
В 2004 году песня «Полёт кондора», была признана национальным достоянием и культурным наследием Перу.
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El cóndor pasa es una canción tradicional de origen peruano. Es una "zarzuela peruana" cuya música fue compuesta por el compositor peruano Daniel Alomía Robles en 1913 (registrada legalmente en 1933) y la letra por Julio de La Paz (seudónimo de Julio Baudouin y Paz). En el Perú fue declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación en el año 2004.
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El Cóndor Pasa ("The condor goes by", or "flies past") is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes.
It is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide due to a cover version by Simon & Garfunkel in 1970 on their Bridge Over Troubled Water album. This cover version is called "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)".
If I Could:
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
Its saddest sound

I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would