| En en café de Levante entre palmas y alegrías
| In the Café de Levante between palms and joys
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| Cantaba la zarzamora;
| The blackberry sang;
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| Se lo pusieron de mote porque dicen que tenia
| They nicknamed it because they say it had
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| Los ojos como la mora
| eyes like the blackberry
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| Le hablo primero a un tratante, y olé
| I speak to a dealer first, and I smelled
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| Y luego fue de un Marques
| And then it was from a Marquis
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| Que la lleno de brillantes, y olé
| That I fill it with diamonds, and I smelled
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| De la cabeza a los pies
| From head to toe
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| Decía la gente que si era de hielo
| People said that if she was made of ice
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| Que si de los hombres se estaba burlando
| What if he was making fun of men
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| Hasta que una noche, con rabia de celos
| Until one night, with a rage of jealousy
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| A la zarzamora pillaron llorando
| The blackberry was caught crying
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| ¿Que tiene la zarzamora
| What has the blackberry
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| Que a todas horas
| that at all hours
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| Llora que llora por los rincones
| Cries that cries in the corners
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| Ella que siempre reía
| she who always laughed
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| Y presumía de que partía los corazones?
| And she bragged that she broke her hearts?
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| De un querer hizo la prueba
| Of a want she did the test
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| Y un cariño conoció
| And a love he met
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| Que la trae y que la lleva
| What brings it and what takes it
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| Por la calle del dolor
| down the street of pain
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| Los flamencos del colmado
| The flamingos of the grocery store
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| La vigilan a deshora
| They watch her at the wrong time
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| Porque se han empestillado
| because they have bolted
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| En saber del querer desgraciado
| In knowing the unfortunate love
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| Que embrujo a la zarzamora
| that bewitched the blackberry
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| Cuando Sonaban las doce una copla de agonía
| When twelve struck a couplet of agony
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| Lloraba la zarzamora
| she cried the blackberry
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| Mas nadie daba razones ni el intríngulis sabia
| But nobody gave reasons nor did the intricacy know
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| De aquella pena traidora
| Of that treacherous sorrow
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| Pero una noche al levante, y olé
| But one night when I was up, and I smelled
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| Fue a buscarla una mujer;
| She went to look for her a woman;
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| Cuando la tuvo delante, y olé | When he had her in front of her, and I smelled |
| Se dijeron no se que
| They said I don't know what
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| De aquello que hablaron ninguno ha sabido
| Of what they spoke no one has known
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| Mas la zarzamora lo dijo llorando
| But the blackberry said it crying
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| En una coplilla que pronto ha corrido
| In a couplet that has soon run
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| Y que ya la gente la va publicando
| And that people are already publishing it
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| ¿Que tiene la zarzamora
| What has the blackberry
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| Que a todas horas
| that at all hours
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| Llora que llora por los rincones
| Cries that cries in the corners
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| Ella que siempre reía
| she who always laughed
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| Y presumía de que partía los corazones?
| And she bragged that she broke hearts?
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| Lleva anillo de casado
| She wears a wedding ring
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| Me vinieron a decir
| they came to tell me
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| Pero ya lo había besado
| But she had already kissed him
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| Y era tarde para mi
| And it was late for me
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| Que publiquen mi pecado
| let them publish my sin
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| Y el pesar que me devora
| And the sorrow that devours me
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| Y que todos me den de lado
| And that they all give me aside
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| Al saber del querer desgraciado
| Upon learning of the unfortunate love
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| Que embrujo a la zarzamora | that bewitched the blackberry |