Café Tacuba - Ojalá que llueva café (English translation)

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Café Tacuba – Ojalá que llueva café

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I Hope It Rains Coffee

I hope* it rains coffee on the countryside

May a shower of cassava and tea fall

and from the sky a cheese gum rockrose

And to the south a watercress and honey mountain

I hope it rains coffee

I hope it rains coffee on the countryside

That a high hill gets covered with wheat and agave

To go down the puffed rice knoll

And carry on plowing with your love

I hope that autumn, instead of dry leaves,

Paints my crops with happy pitito flowers*

That it sows a plane with potatoes and strawberries

I hope it rains coffee

I hope it rains coffee on the countryside

That a high hill gets covered with wheat and maguey

To go down the puffed rice knoll

And go on plowing with your love

So reality won’t be so painful

I hope it rains coffee on the countryside

So in Villa Hidalgo they can hear this song

I hope it rains coffee on the countryside

So all the children can sing this song

I hope it rains coffee on the countryside

I hope it rains, I hope it rains

I hope it rains coffee on the countryside

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theresnocertainty on 2011-02-11

Author's comments:

*The expression “ Ojala” is always a tricky one. It can be translated as: I hope, let’s hope or hopefully and it affects not only the sentence in which it appears but also all subsequent sentences.

*I couldn’t find any sort of reference to this plant so I just used the term in such a way it can convey some idea of what it is.
Pititos are flowers, red in colour and not particularly conspicuous, actually they’re very plain. They are very tasty and are used in cooking in most parts of Latin America and Brazil. They are called “pititos” for its falic form