Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song La Carcel de Sing Sing, artist - Alci Acosta
Date of issue: 16.10.2006
Song language: Spanish
La Carcel de Sing Sing(original) |
Ayer yo visité la cárcel de Sing Sing |
Y en una de sus celdas solitarias, |
Un hombre se encontraba arrodillado al Redentor: |
Piedad, piedad de mí, mi Gran Señor. |
Mas, cuando me miró, a mí se abalanzó; |
Y con voz temblorosa y recortada: |
Escucha, triste hermano, esta horrible confesión; |
Aquí, yo condenado a muerte estoy... |
Yo tuve que matar a un ser que quise amar |
Y, aunque aún estando muerta, yo la quiero... |
Al verla con su amante, a los dos los maté, |
Por culpa de ese infame moriré. |
Minutos nada más me quedan ya para expirar, |
La silla lista está, la cámara también. |
A mi pobre viejita, que desesperada está, |
Entréguele este recuerdo de mí. |
(translation) |
Yesterday I visited the Sing Sing jail |
And in one of his solitary cells, |
A man was kneeling to the Redeemer: |
Mercy, mercy on me, my Great Lord. |
But when he looked at me, he pounced on me; |
And in a quavering, clipped voice: |
Listen, sad brother, to this horrible confession; |
Here, I am sentenced to death... |
I had to kill a being that I wanted to love |
And, even though she's dead, I love her... |
Seeing her with her lover, I killed them both, |
Because of that infamous I will die. |
I only have minutes left to expire, |
The chair is ready, the camera too. |
To my poor old lady, how desperate she is, |
Give him this memory of me. |