Sunday Song - Danza mi País

I'm gonna start a new thing here. Music is such a key piece of praise, worship, culture, and spirituality. I've posted some mass songs before, but I want to make this more regular. So the goal is every Sunday to post a new mass song. For you, the reader, it's a way to hear Peruvian voices and music, to see more of Peru (if the video for the song has images), and to understand the spirituality a bit more.

"Danza mi país" is one of my favorite mass songs. It's simpe, it's joyful, it's rich and complex. It talks about the beauty of Peru. It tells us that Peruvians are a people who are "valiant and generous/poor but rich in dignity." And there is nothing that stops them from dancing. They dance with their joys and pains; they dance because they await the day God liberates them.

I also love this song for its second verse. (read translation after the jump). That's the point of this blog. It's here to tell people what truly happens here.

We dance with joy and pain. We dance like David danced. We dance because we are alive and God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.

Vivo en un país maravilloso,  lleno de riqueza y voluntad,  Dios pintó mi alma blanco y rojo  y por nada cambio este lugar. Mi pueblo es valiente y generoso,  pobre pero rico en dignidad y ni el sufrimiento ni el enojo  le han hecho que deje de danzar. Y ASI DANZA, DANZA, DANZA CON SUS PENAS, CON SUS ALEGRIAS, CON SU CAMINAR,  DANZA, DANZA, DANZA POR QUE ESPERA  QUE EL DIOS DE LA VIDA LOS LIBERARA. Si vas a vivir en otras tierras, diles lo que pasa aqui en verdad, cuentales que el odio y la miseria  no nos han podido doblegar. Habla de toda la gente buena  que ha dado su vida por la paz y que, tras su muerte, los que quedan  se han unido para continuar.

I live in a wonderful country, full of wealth and will, God painted my soul white and red and I wouldn’t change this place for anything. My people are brave and generous, poor but rich in dignity and neither suffering nor anger have made them stop dancing. AND SO THEY DANCE, DANCE, DANCE WITH THEIR PAINS WITH THEIR JOYS, WITH THEIR WAY OF WALKING,  THEY) DANCE, DANCE, DANCE BECAUSE THEY HOPE  THAT THE GOD OF LIFE WILL LIBERATE THEM. If you go to live in other lands, tell them what really happens here, Tell them that hate and misery Have not been able to defeat us. Tell about all the good people  who have given their lives for peace and that after their death, those left have united to continue.