Translation of the song lyrics Adelita - Nat King Cole, Nelson Riddle Orchestra

Adelita (original)

En lo alto de una abrupta serranía
Acampado se encontraba un regimiento
Y una moza que valiente lo seguía
Locamente enamorada del sargento
Popular entre la tropa era Adelita
La mujer que el sargento idolatraba
Que además de ser valiente era bonita
Que hasta el mismo coronel la respetaba
Y se oía que decía
Aquel que tanto la quería…
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
La seguiría por tierra y por mar
Si por mar en un buque de guerra
Si por tierra en un tren militar
Si Adelita quisiera ser mi esposa
Y si Adelita ya fuera mi mujer
Le compraría un vestido de seda
Para llevarla a bailar al cuartel
Y después que terminó la cruel batalla
Y la tropa regresó a su campamento
Por la vez de una mujer que sollozaba
La plegaria se oyó en el campamento
Y al oírla el sargento temeroso
De perder para siempre su adorada
Escondiendo su dolor bajo el reboso
A su amada le cantó de esta manera…
Y se oía que decía
Aquel que tanto se moría…
Y si acaso yo muero en la guerra
Y mi cadáver lo van a sepultar
Adelita, por Dios te lo ruego
Que por mí no vayas a llorar

Adelita (translation)

At the top of a steep mountain range
Encamped was a regiment
And a brave girl followed him
She madly in love with the sergeant
Popular with the troop was Adelita
The woman the sergeant idolized
That besides being brave she was pretty
That even the colonel respected her
And she could hear her say
The one who loved her so much...
If Adelita left with another
He would follow her by land and by sea
If she by sea on a warship
If by land in a military train
If Adelita wanted to be my wife
And if Adelita were already my wife
She would buy him a silk dress
To take her to dance at the barracks
And after the cruel battle was over
And the troop returned to their camp
For the time of a woman who sobbed
The prayer was heard in the camp
And when the fearful sergeant heard it
Of losing his beloved forever
Hiding his pain from her under the overflow
He sang to his beloved her in this way...
And she could hear her say
The one who died so much...
And if I die in the war
And my corpse is going to be buried
Adelita, by God I beg you
Don't go crying for me