Walina de los jinetes

Lacopampa está nublado
¿Cuál será de sentimiento
Cuando canta alcalde campo¹
Los tres versos de partida?

Jugando recubre² tu aliento³
Latirán los corazones
Cuando canta alcalde campo
Los tres versos de partida

Todo el año en la vida
Mil pesares voy pasando
Cuando canto esta walina⁴
Tus ojitos llorarían

It is cloudy in Lacopampa
What kind of emotion might this stir
When the rural leader¹ sings
The three opening verses?

As you play you catch your breath³
Hearts beat faster
When the rural mayor sings
The three opening verses

Throughout the years of my life
I endure a thousand sorrows
When I sing this walina⁴
Your dear eyes would surely weep

1. The authority responsible for organizing Champería, an eight-day water festival celebrated each October in the agrarian community of San Pedro de Casta.

2. Going by the pronunciation, this may instead be transcribed as "jugando r'cubre"
or as "jugador cubre" (player, cover [your breath]).

3. "Catch your breath" or "recover your vigor."

4. A genre of ritual water song from San Pedro de Casta. Sometimes spelled hualina, the term derives from warina, a reference to the ancient Wari civilization that built Casta's irrigation system.

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