Víctor Jara (album)

Víctor Jara
Studio album by Víctor Jara
Released 1967
Recorded 1967
Genre Folk music
Protest music
Length 41:13
Label Odeon
Alerce
Warner
Producer Víctor Jara
Víctor Jara chronology

Canciones folklóricas de América
(1967)		 Víctor Jara
(1967)		 Pongo en tus manos abiertas
(1969)

Víctor Jara is an album released by Víctor Jara in 1967, it was subsequently released under the name of Desde longuén hasta siempre with a variation of different covers.

The album includes the controversial song, "El aparecido" (The Ghost), which was written about Che Guevara's death months before the argentinian revolutionary was actually killed. The song says: "The crows with golden claws have put a price on his head / how the fury of the rich has crucified him."

Track listing

  1. "El aparecido" (The ghost) (Víctor Jara)
  2. "El lazo" (The lasso) (Víctor Jara)
  3. "Qué alegres son las obreras" (How happy are the Women Workers) (Bolivian folk)
  4. "Despedimiento del angelito" (Farewell to the Little Angel) (Chilean folk)
  5. "Solo" (Alone) (Eduardo Carrasco)
  6. "En algún lugar del puerto" (Some place in the port)(Víctor Jara)
  7. "Así como hoy matan negros" (Thus they kill blacks today) (Pablo Neruda - Sergio Ortega)
  8. "El amor es un camino que de repente aparece" (Love is a road that suddenly appears) (Víctor Jara)
  9. "Casi, casi" (Almost, almost) (Chilean folk)
  10. "Canción de cuna para un niño vago" (Lullaby for a deserted child) (Víctor Jara)
  11. "Romance del enamorado y la muerte" (Song of the Lover and of Death) (Text: Anonymous - Víctor Jara)
  12. "Ay mi palomita" (Ah, my little dove) (Chilean folk)