Joan Manuel Serrat — La Palmera Levantina song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "La Palmera Levantina" by Joan Manuel Serrat.

Lyrics

La palmera levantina
La columna que camina
La palmera… la palmera…
La palmera levantina
La que otea la marina
La mediterránea era
La que atrapa la primera
Ráfaga de primavera
La primera golondrina
La que araña los luceros
Y se ciñe los encajes
De las nubes a los zancos datileros
La que brinda sol en grano al verderol
La que se arroja de bruces contra el Sol
El magnífico incensario
Que se mece solitario
La palmera… la palmera…
Al final de una colina
Contra azul extraordinario…
¡la palmera levantina!
La palmera lo primero
Que vé el ojo marinero
De los mares de Levante
La palmera la que encuna
Al arcángel de la luna
¡la palmera de Alicante!
Vedla, fina
Palpitar en el confín
Vedla, presa, en la retina
De Azorín
La palmera… la palmera…
Como manos compañeras
Al dejar mis anchos valles
Y marchar de una mentira bella en pos, como manos
Desde fondos de horizontes y colinas
Me dijeron las palmeras
Levantinas
«¡adiós!»

Lyrics translation

The Levantine Palm
The Walking column
The palm tree ... the palm tree…
The Levantine Palm
The one that kills the Navy
The Mediterranean was
The one that catches the first
Spring gust
The first swallow
The one that scavenges the stars
And she's strapping the lace
From the clouds to the date stilts
The one that gives grain sun to verderol
The one who flings herself against The Sun
The magnificent Censer
That swings lonely
The palm tree ... the palm tree…
At the end of a hill
Against extraordinary blue…
the Levantine Palm!
The palm tree first
That I see the Sea Eye
Of the Levant seas
The palm tree that meets
To the archangel of the moon
the palm tree of Alicante!
Vedla, fina
Throbbing at the edge
Vedla, prey, in the retina
Of Azorin
The palm tree ... the palm tree…
As companion hands
By leaving my wide valleys
And march from a beautiful lie in pursuit, like hands
From backgrounds of horizons and hills
They told me the palm trees
Levantines
"goodbye!»