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Tanta Belleza!
©2006 John Margolis, Don Rosler

Buenos dias mis amigos
Hope you don't mind if I
Set my paints and canvass here

Since I've returned to Medellín
My problem has been
I can't paint a thing
I'm so overwhelmed by...

Chorus: Tanta belleza!
Es que no puedo encuadrarlo (I cannot make it fit)
Tanta belleza!
En un marco tan pequeno (in so small a frame)

Verde, rosa, cielo, mariposa (green, rose, sky, butterfly)
Caras, hojas, montes, esmeraldas (faces, leaves, mountains, emeralds)

Tanta belleza
Oh so much beauty
Tanta belleza

Buenas tardes ninos y ninas
De Barranquilla
Can I paint here while you play?

I used to run along these streets
So many memories
Look, there's my mother calling to me

(Chorus)

Falda, sonrisa, campana, bicicleta (shirt, smile, bell, bicycle)
Luna, cometa, ramitas de violettas (moon, kite, sprigs of violets)

Tanta belleza)
No hay forma de encuadrarlo (there is no way to make it fit)

Rio, lindo, botellas, estrellas, (river, pretty, bottles, stars)
Manos, tierras, colores de la bandera (hands, lands, colors of the ban.
Ojos brillan, cantando bailando (eyes shining, singing, dancing)
Suave el viento, sonidos de amor (soft breezes, sounds of love)
Flautas, fiestas, cestas, claveles (flutes, fiestas, baskets, carnations)
Vida, luces, topaza de la espiritu (life, light, topaza of the spirit)