| Osculetur me oscule oris suis
| He kissed me with a kiss on his lips
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| Ideo adolescentulae dilexerunt te
| That is why young women loved you
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| Nigra sum sent formosa
| I am black and feel beautiful
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| (but tomorrow is another day anyway)
| (but tomorrow is another day anyway)
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| Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim
| Don't think I'm brown
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| Quia decoloravit me sol
| Because the sun has discolored me
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| It’s alright, ma! | It's alright, ma! |
| (i'm only bleeding)
| (I'm only bleeding)
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| Here comes the sun
| Here comes the sun
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| Indica mihi quem, dirigit anima mea
| Tell me who, my soul directs
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| Ube pascas, ube cubes in meridie
| Where you feed, where you sleep at noon
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| (come with me and be my love)
| (come with me and be my love)
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| Ego dilecto meo, et dilectos meus mihi
| I to my beloved, and my beloved to me
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| (i've got you under my skin… oh! really?)
| (i've got you under my skin… oh! really?)
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| Ego flos campi
| I am a flower of the field
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| Et lilium convallium
| And the lily of the valley
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| Veni, dilecte mi egrediamur in agrum
| Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field
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| Commoremur in villis
| We will stay in the villages
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| Ibi dabo tibi ubera mea
| I will give you my breasts there
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| Quam pulchra es, amica mea, quam pulchra es!
| How beautiful you are, my friend, how beautiful you are!
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| Umbilicus tuus crater tornalitis
| Your focus is the tornalite crater
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| Numquam indigens poculis
| Never needing cups
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| Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici
| Your belly is like a heap of wheat
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| Vallatus liliis
| Walled with lilies
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| Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli
| Your two breasts are like two chickens
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| Gemelli capreae
| Twin goats
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| (absque occultis tuis!)
| (and away from your secrets!)
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| Apori mihi, 'soror mea, amica mea
| Come to me, my sister, my friend
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| Columba mea, immaculata mea
| My dove, my immaculate one
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| Dilectus meus misit manum sua per foramen
| My beloved sent his hand through the hole
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| Et venter meus intremuit ad tactum eius
| And my stomach trembled at his touch
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| Qui faciemus sorori nostrae
| What will we do to our sister?
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| In die quando alloquenda est?
| On what day should it be addressed?
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| Sub arbore malo suscitavi te
| I raised you under a bad tree
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| Ibi corrupta est mater tua
| Your mother was corrupted there
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| Ibi violata est genitrix tua
| Your mother was violated there
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| Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum
| Place me as a sign over your heart
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| Ut signaculum super brachium tuum
| Like a badge on your arm
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| Que fortis est ut mors dilectio | That love is as strong as death |