El Condor Pasa (If I Could)

Simon & Garfunkel & Los Incas * Track #2 On Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Album Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Simon & Garfunkel

1970

El Condor Pasa (If I Could) by Simon & Garfunkel (Ft. Los Incas)

Release Date

Mon Jan 26 1970

Performed by

Simon & GarfunkelLos Incas

Produced by

Roy Halee & Art Garfunkel & Paul Simon

Writed by

Daniel Alomía Robles

About

While touring in Paris, Paul Simon heard the Peruvian ensemble Los Incas play “El Cóndor Pasa” (“The condor goes by”, or “flies past”; a song from the 1913 zarzuela (musical play) of the same name by Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles). He liked the tune and asked if he could supply English ly...

El Condor Pasa (If I Could) Lyrics

[Verse 1: Paul Simon]
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would
If I could
I surely would

[Verse 2: Paul Simon]
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would
If I only could
I surely would

[Bridge: Art Garfunkel]
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world
Its saddest sound
Its saddest sound

[Verse 3: Paul Simon]
I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would
If I could
I surely would

[Verse 4: Paul Simon]
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would
If I only could
I surely would

El Condor Pasa (If I Could) Q&A

Who wrote El Condor Pasa (If I Could)'s ?

El Condor Pasa (If I Could) was written by Daniel Alomía Robles.

Who produced El Condor Pasa (If I Could)'s ?

El Condor Pasa (If I Could) was produced by Roy Halee & Art Garfunkel & Paul Simon.