The drunkenness

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The singer Gualberto Ibarreto made himself known to the Venezuelan public as the Cantor of the Voice of the People and he did it with his first song "María Antonia". Well, his second best-known song was “Cuerpo cobarde” (Cowardly body) or "La Borrachera" (Drunkenness) as it is also known. It is a pleasure for me to present it, once again, in this musical field with this last song.

After the success obtained with "María Antonia", Gualberto Ibarreto enlarging his fame with the song "Cuerpo cobarde". This song finished giving him enough national fame, glimpsing his enormous potential, as it happened later, as a singer of international stature.

On another occasion I commented in this same area that, "Gualberto Ibarreto is one of those few singers who are touched by the hand of God. And, I say this because of the extraordinary voice of this 71-year-old Venezuelan baritone who was born in El Pilar, a town in Sucre State in Venezuela, on July 12, 1947. This insurmountable singer has played all kinds of traditional-popular music as throughout his artistic career becoming one of the greatest icons of Venezuelan musical identity. This affirmation resurges, once again, to be able to hear him interpreting "Cowardly Body", in this second original version, remember that the first occurred in 1975.

In this opportunity he does it in a more cheerful, fresh, jocular and entertaining way. In it you can see a much faster interpretation, full of good humor, like the first version, but this time Gualberto assumes it, not as impersonal - as he did in the first version - and almost autobiographical, as you have of knowing, Gualberto surpassed, after a rigorous medical treatment, his problems of addiction to alcohol reason why each time that he interpreted this song it finished with a stanza that alluded directly to his new stage of life far from the alcohol as it can be understood in the letter of this second version, which by the way, is a verse attributed to Gualberto himself.

"Cowardly Body" was composed by the Venezuelan musician Cruz Alfonzo Díaz and is, practically, a faithful reflection of the life of this exceptional Venezuelan singer committed to his way of singing, with the people, but above all with his oriental people and their idiosyncrasies . Gualberto himself comments "... there is a commitment to life. While I can sing I will be with my people, who have supported me and never abandoned me. Sometimes, those who arise and fall, do not let them come back. It must be because success did not change me. For me singing is a gift that God gave me. That's why I have to thank you for allowing me to share it with my fellows. I was born different, but it does not mean it's better. It's like those people who were good at Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry, subjects in which I was bad ... I'm from all over the world. I want all Venezuela ... "This singer is still optimistic, because the Venezuelan people want it unrestricted today more than ever.

I hope that you will like the information that I leave here, at the same time, I appreciate the comments you have to make.

Estelio Padilla

“Cuerpo cobarde” (Cowardly body)
(Letter and Music: Cruz Alfonzo Díaz)
Performs (sings): Gualberto Ibarreto

Soloist
00.00 A cowardly body
How do you wiggle,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Chorus
00.09 A cowardly body
How it wiggles,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Soloist
00.18 What's up with you musa
Musa what's wrong with you ?, (bis,)
Between laza and crosses,
Cross and between laza. (Bis)

Soloist
00.32 A cowardly body
How do you wiggle,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Chorus
00.39 A cowardly body
How it wiggles,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Soloist
00.48 Who was the one who told you
That I did not come? (Bis)
Because I did not have
A fixed path. (Bis)

Soloist
01.02 And A cowardly body
How do you wiggle,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Chorus
01.10 A cowardly body
How it wiggles,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Soloist
01.19 Parrandero man
It must not die; (Bis)
To have fun
With his partners. (Bis)

Soloist
01.33 A cowardly body
How do you wiggle,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Chorus
01.40 A cowardly body
How it wiggles,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Soloist
01.50 The sow with me
And I with the sow; (Bis)
Sow growls at me
And I cochi sow! (Bis)

Soloist
02.04 A cowardly body
How do you wiggle,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Chorus
02.11 A cowardly body
How it wiggles,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Soloist
02.20 No longer wiggles
I do not mistreat him; (Bis)
The body drunk
He broke the contract. (Bis)

Soloist
02.34 A cowardly body
How do you wiggle,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

Chorus
02.41 A cowardly body
How it wiggles,
I charge a drunken
May God keep it for me.

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