| Sé que hubieras querido ser pirata,
| I know you would have wanted to be a pirate,
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| Para la mitad de las cosas no ver,
| For half of the things not to see,
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| Y aparte de la pata, el corazón de madera también,
| And apart from the leg, the wooden heart too,
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| Para no sentir, para no parecer.
| Not to feel, not to seem.
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| Nacistes como tantas otras un dia diez,
| You were born like so many others one day ten,
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| Un mes de abril sin lluvia del setenta y tres,
| A month of April without rain of seventy-three,
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| Las cinco de la tarde, taurina hasta para nacer.
| Five in the afternoon, bullfighting even to be born.
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| Muleta, espada y tiento luces para triunfar,
| Crutch, sword and light touch to succeed,
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| Faenas con empaque sin poder sospechar
| Tasks with packaging without being able to suspect
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| Que un día tu vida se torna de calma en cruel tempestad.
| That one day your life turns from calm into a cruel storm.
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| Galera bucanera que te puso a remar,
| Buccaneer galley that put you to row,
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| Así cuentas la historia de tu error marital;
| This is how you tell the story of your marital error;
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| Entre rones y banderas que dibujan calaveras,
| Between rums and flags that draw skulls,
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| La galera viento en popa a toda vela va.
| The galley astern under full sail goes.
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| Galera bucanera que te puso a remar,
| Buccaneer galley that put you to row,
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| Así cuentas la historia de tu error marital;
| This is how you tell the story of your marital error;
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| Entre rones y banderas que dibujan calaveras,
| Between rums and flags that draw skulls,
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| La galera viento en popa a toda vela va.
| The galley astern under full sail goes.
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| Te duermes en laureles en el noventa y tres,
| You rest on laurels in ninety-three,
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| Altar de barrio, traje largo, que bien te ves,
| Neighborhood altar, long suit, how good you look,
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| Con sólo veinte años, tan niña, de niña a pobre mujer.
| Only twenty years old, so young, from a child to a poor woman.
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| Remaste entre tormentas, te dejaste la piel,
| You rowed between storms, you left your skin,
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| Te tuvo condenada a cinco años y un mes,
| He had you sentenced to five years and one month,
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| Maldices sus olores a rones, la tiera prometida se fue.
| You curse her smell of rums, the promised land is gone.
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| Galera bucanera que te puso a remar,
| Buccaneer galley that put you to row,
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| Así cuentas la historia de tu error marital;
| This is how you tell the story of your marital error;
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| Entre rones y banderas que dibujan calaveras,
| Between rums and flags that draw skulls,
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| La galera viento en popa a toda vela va.
| The galley astern under full sail goes.
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| Galera bucanera que te puso a remar,
| Buccaneer galley that put you to row,
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| Así cuentas la historia de tu error marital;
| This is how you tell the story of your marital error;
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| Entre rones y banderas que dibujan calaveras,
| Between rums and flags that draw skulls,
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| La galera viento en popa a toda vela va | The galley astern goes full sail |