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Jarabe de Palo – Bonito Lyrics 1 year ago
Absolutely love this BEAUTIFUL song! For me, it helps pick me up when all seems dark and hopeless. I first heard it when my high-school Spanish teacher played it for us all in class (He was, and probably always will be, my favorite teacher and one of my bigger mentors). I saved it and listen to it often.

Here is a quick, dirty Google Translate that I did my best to touch up, pardon my rusty Spanish skills... :

"Beautiful, everything is beautiful to me

A beautiful morning

A beautiful place

A beautiful bed

How great the sea looks [or maybe 'how beautiful the bed is, that so well views the sea?]

Beautiful is the day

And life has only just begun to be beautiful

Breathe, breathe, breathe


The phone rings, my friend complains

Things are going badly, life weighs on him

That living like this is no longer interesting

That continuing like this is not worth it

Love is lost to him, the party is over

The engine that pushes the earth no longer works

Life is a joke with a sad ending

The future does not exist but I tell him...


Beautiful, everything is beautiful to me


Beautiful is peace, beautiful is life

Beautiful it is to come to be born again each day

Beautiful is truth when it doesn't sound like a lie

Beautiful is friendship, beautiful is laughter

Beautiful are people, when there is quality [of life?]

Beautiful are the people who do not regret

who win and who lose, who speak and don't lie

Beautiful, people are, that is why I say...


Beautiful, everything is beautiful to me


How beautiful it is when things go beautifully,

How beautiful that things are going well


Beautiful, everything is beautiful to me

The sea, the morning, the house, the shadow, the earth,

the peace and the life that we have

Beautiful, everything is beautiful to me

Your calm, your pizazz [not sure if this is right for 'salsa'], the

blemish on your back, your face, your longing for the weekend


Beautiful are the people who come and who go

Beautiful are the people who don't stop going

Beautiful are the timeless people

that listen, that understand, that have and that give


Beautiful Portet, beautiful Peret

Beautiful the rumba, beautiful José

Beautiful the breeze that isn't in a hurry

Beautiful this day, breathe, breathe

Beautiful are the people when they are genuine

Beautiful are the people who are unique

Who tremble, who feel

Who live in the present

Beautiful are the people that I was and that is no longer


Beautiful, everything seems beautiful to me


How beautiful it is when things go beautifully,

How beautiful that things are going well


How beautiful it is when things go beautifully,

How beautiful that things are going well


Beautiful, everything seems beautiful to me."


Without getting too deep into the song, my interpretation of it is that even though life has many hardships and can be ugly, when you take a step back and try to gain some more perspective, you might be able to see that every segment of life has it's own beauty. Sorry if my translation is lacking, but I hope the general meaning is right. Cheers.

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