Little questions about God - Atahualpa Yupanqui
Saturday 8th December 2018
Does God take care of the poor? Maybe yes, maybe not. But I'm sure he dines At the table of the boss.

I found in my music collection the song by Atahualpa Yupanqui - it perhaps helps us understand anticlericalism.
Atahualpa Yupanqui singing Little Questions about God
Little questions about God
One day I asked:
Grandfather, where is God?
My grandfather became sad,
And didn’t reply.
My grandfather died in the fields,
without prayer or confession.
And the natives buried him,
With flute of cane and drum.
I then asked:
Father, what do you know of God?
My father got serious
and he too didn’t reply.
My father died in the mine
without doctor or protection.
The colour of mineras' blood
is the gold of the boss!
My brother lives in the mountains
and he doesn't know a flower.
Sweat, malaria, snakes,
the life of the lumberjack.
Nobody asks him
if he knows where God is.
Because by his house didn't pass
such an important lord.
I sing on the roads,
and when I'm in prison
There I hear the voice of the people
that sing better than me.
There's a question on the Earth
more important than God.
And is that nobody should
spit blood
for another to live better.
Does God take care of the poor?
Maybe yes, maybe not.
But I'm sure he dines
At the table of the boss.
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