Blessed farm

With regard to the pitiful ignorance with which some subjects use the sacred word "chacra" (the farm) as a synonym of futile and negligible, here is a verse from "Resuellos":

Blessed source my farm

blessed mother the earth

blessed the farmers

of the coast, jungle and highlands.

If not for these fields

nobody would have food

that is truth shared

from the doctor to the ass.

Farm is worked land

it is sowing and cultivation

and it is the main reason

for this country being alive.

Farm is nurture and tenderness

it is passion, it is foundation

university of the world

farm is life and is sustenance.

When you come to talk about the farm

honour the breath that exhales

know well what you pronounce

without saying the word badly.

Do not insult my kinship

If you come to speak of the farm

Which is my grandparents' honour

the earth and the cultivation.

Rinse out your mouth

invest a little in thinking

and fumigate your prejudices

if of the farm you come to speak.

Here is the verse in its original Spanish:

Bendita fuente mi chacra

bendita madre la tierra

benditos los chacareros

de la costa, selva y sierra.

De no ser por estas chacras

nadie tendría alimento

eso es verdad compartida

del doctor hasta el jumento.

Chacra es tierra de labranza

es sementera y cultivo

y es la razón principal

porque el país está vivo.

Chacra es crianza y ternura

es pasión es fundamento

universidad del mundo

chacra es vida y es sustento.

Cuando venga a hablar de chacra

honre el aliento que exhala

sepa bien lo que pronuncia

sin decir mal la palabra.

No me insulte el parentesco

si de chacra viene a hablar

que es honra de mis abuelos

la tierra y el cultivar.

Enjuáguese usted la boca

invierta un poco en pensar

y fumigue sus prejuicios

si de chacra viene a hablar.