Ojos azules (song)

Ojos azules is a traditional taquira also played as huayno song of the Andean Altiplano region, authored by the famous Bolivian composer Gilberto Rojas Enriquez in 1947. This song was also wrongly attributed to a Peruvian composer, Manuel Casazola Huancco, but there is no proof of it. Rojas Enriquez composed many songs with a style very palpable in Ojos Azules. Lyrics:

Ojos azules no llores, no llores ni te enamores. Llorarás cuando me vaya, cuando remedio ya no haya.

Tú me juraste quererme, quererme toda la vida. No pasaron dos, tres días, tú te alejas y me dejas.

En una copa de vino quisiera tomar veneno veneno para matarme, veneno para olvidarte.

Lyrics: (English - Translation)

Blue eyes don't cry Don't cry or fall in love You will cry after I leave When there is no more remedy

You swore to love me Love me your entire life Two, three days went by You went away and left me

In a wine glass I wish I could drink venom Venom to kill myself Venom to forget you You'll cry when I go away....


In the past 40 years, "Ojos Azules" has been interpreted by several Bolivian, Peruvian, Chilean, and Argentinian groups. Most groups had the wrong information about its composer, only Mercedes Sosa knew about Gilberto Rojas.

In SADAIC (Argentine Society of Composers and Authors) "Ojos Azules" was listed in 1951, as song number #1635196, by author Gilbert Rojas Enriquez

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