Thread: The Vamos A Matar Companeros Lyrics

Can anyone translate the great song of Ennio Morricone in the movie of Sergio Corbucci's Italian Western Classic Vamos A Matar Companeros
No other translation I could find on net so also you most possibly will have the honor of being the first one to translate this great song
Thanks in advance

http://www.caniarrabbiati.it/recensi...b1b57c45e73628

Vamos a matar companeros

(B. Corbucci, E. Morricone)

Levantando en aire los sombreros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Pintaremos de rojosol y cielos
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Hay que ganar moriendo, pistoleros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Hay que morir venciendo, guerrilleros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Luchando con el hambre, sin dineros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Estudiantes, rebeldes, bandoleros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Hermanos somos, reyes y obreros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros

Fabio Meini

Vamos a matar compañeros
Let’s (go) kill/slaughter comrades

(B. Corbucci, E. Morricone)

Levantando en aire los sombreros
Lift your hats up in the air
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, compañeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill comrades

Pintaremos de rojo sol y cielos
We’ll paint the sun and sky in red
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, compañeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill comrades

Hay que ganar moriendo, pistoleros
We have to win dying, gunmen
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, compañeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill comrades

Hay que morir venciendo, guerrilleros
We have to die triumphing, guerrilleros
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, companeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill, comrades

Luchando con el hambre, sin dineros
Fighting with hunger, without money
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, compañeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill, comrades

Estudiantes, rebeldes, bandoleros
Students, rebels, bandits
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, compañeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill, comrades

Hermanos somos, reyes y obreros
We are brothers, kings or workmen
Vamos a matar, vamos a matar, compañeros
Let’s go kill, let’s go kill, comrades


Fabio Meini

we shall going to kill ... ???

I do not want to offend anyone, but that is NO English !

no offend at all neither I know Spanish nor I am a native English speaker
I try to accomplish a reliable and if possible a good translation which can be sing with the song with your great and kind helps
we are working together

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guerrilla

Function: noun

Etymology: Spanish guerrilla, from diminutive of guerra war, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German werra strife

Date:
1809

a person who engages in irregular warfare especially as a member of an independent unit carrying out harassment and sabotage

it seemed guerilla may be used both for organisation and fighter but if not it might be guerilla fighter as in youtube translation

you are most possibly right about my grammar
maybe we shall be killing is another possibility

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html
http://www.tamiu.edu/writingcenter/p...0Forms%202.doc

here is also the youtube translation from a non Spanish fan of the movie maybe some way it helps too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d10JadNLpAg

Raising in the air the sombreros
[refrain] let's go and(1) kill, let's go and(1) kill, companions(2)
we'll paint red(3) the sun an' the sky
[ref.]
you(4) must gain(5) while dying, gunmen
[ref.]
you(4) must die while winning(6), guerrilla fighters
[ref.]
fighting with the hunger, moneylesses
[ref.]
students, rebels, bandits
[ref.]
brothers we are, kings and workers
[ref.]

Notes

(1) and: literally should be "to", but I used to know that in correct English one must use instead "go and {verb}" or "go {verb}ing", in this case I prefer the first.

(2) companions: I used this 'vox media' instead of "comrades" because the guerrilleros aren't communists or fascists and in Italian while "camerata" means "companion-in-arms" and is the fascist-specific term of address, "compagno" isn't communist-specific, is a common word (it's used even between children and between the partisans of Radical Party, the libertarian one); I supposed in Spanish it's the same, so the uncoloured term.

(3) red: as in "blood", no correletion with "paint the town red". (note: "rojo[space]sol y cielo" more probable without "s")

(4) you: impersonal, to be clearer I could have used "one", but I prefer "you".

(5) gain: the Spanish "ganar" actually means "gain, earn", I think it's used as "gain (even a little) victory for the final victory".

(6) winning: this is my worry because there's no sense in wishing death during victory, I think it's used as "winning against an enemy" therefore "doing the best".