| Acaso te llamaron solamente María
| Did they just call you Maria?
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| No se si eras el eco de una vieja canción
| I don't know if you were the echo of an old song
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| Pero hace mucho mucho fuiste hondamente mía
| But a long long time ago you were deeply mine
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| Bajo un paisaje mustio desteñido de amor
| Under a musty landscape faded from love
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| Un otoño de trabajo mojando mi agonía
| An autumn of work soaking my agony
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| Tu sombrerito pobre y el tocado marrón
| Your poor little hat and brown headdress
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| Si eras como la calle de la melancolía
| If you were like the street of melancholy
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| Que llovía y llovía sobre mi corazón
| That it rained and rained on my heart
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| María en las sombras de mí casa
| Maria in the shadows of my house
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| Es tu rostro el que traspasa
| It is your face that pierces
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| María que es tu voz mu chica y triste
| Maria, your voice is very small and sad
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| La del día en que dijiste ya no hay
| The one from the day you said there is no more
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| Nada entre los dos
| Nothing between the two
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| María la mas mía
| Maria the most mine
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| la lejana si
| the far one yes
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| Volviera otra mañana
| come back another morning
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| por las calles del adiós
| through the streets of goodbye
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| Tus ojos eran puertos
| your eyes were ports
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| que marcaban
| that they marked
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| Ausentes,
| Missing,
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| horizontes de lluvia y
| horizons of rain and
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| Un pasado de sol
| A sunny past
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| pero tus manos buenas
| but your good hands
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| Regresaron presentes
| Presents returned
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| para calmar mi
| to calm me
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| Fiebre desmayadita
| faint fever
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| de amor
| of love
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| Un otoño te fuiste
| One autumn you left
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| tu nombre era María
| your name was Maria
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| Y nunca supe nada
| And I never knew anything
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| de tu rumbo infeliz
| of your unhappy course
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| Si eras como la calle
| If you were like the street
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| de la melancolía
| of melancholy
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| Que llovía y llovía
| that it rained and it rained
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| sobre la tarde gris
| on the gray afternoon
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| María
| Mary
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| en las sombras de mí casa
| in the shadows of my house
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| Es tu rostro
| is your face
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| el que traspasa
| the one that crosses
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| María que es tu voz
| Mary who is your voice
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| mu chica y triste
| very girl and sad
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| La del día en que dijiste
| The one on the day you said
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| ya no hay
| there is no
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| Nada entre los dos
| Nothing between the two
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| María la mas mía
| Maria the most mine
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| la lejana si
| the far one yes
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| Volviera otra mañana
| come back another morning
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| por las calles del adiós | through the streets of goodbye |