With his "Hola y Adiós" tour, Joaquín Sabina gave us the chance to bid farewell to a body of songs that, though still too young for the eternity that awaits them, have become so deeply our own that they no longer seem to come from a singer-songwriter, but from the very wellsprings of popular tradition itself-enduring through successive generations. These songs will never again be sung before thousands of people by their own author, who is retiring his guitar-slinging globetrotter persona and celebrating his own survival with this farewell offering.