| No tengo amigos,
| I do not have friends,
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| no tengo amores,
| I don't have love
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| no tengo patria,
| I have no country
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| ni religión.
| nor religion.
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| solo amarguras tengo en el alma
| I only have bitterness in my soul
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| y juna malaya mi corazón.
| and juna malaya my heart.
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| Mas no por eso yo me lamento
| But not for that I regret
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| pues siempre tengo en la ocasión,
| Well, I always have on the occasion,
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| para mis quejas una milonga;
| for my complaints a milonga;
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| para mis penas una canción.
| for my sorrows a song.
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| Que me importa de la vida,
| What do I care about life,
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| si nadie me va a llorar.
| if no one is going to cry for me
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| Quien me lloraba se ha muerto
| The one who cried for me has died
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| y esa muerte me ha matao
| and that death has killed me
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| Desde entonces desafío
| Since then I challenge
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| al jilguero y al zorzal,
| the goldfinch and the thrush,
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| quien mejor cantando ahoga
| who better singing drowns
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| las tristezas de su mal.
| the sorrows of his evil from him.
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| Milonga mía no me abandones,
| My milonga don't abandon me,
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| Tenerte siempre quiero, a mi lao.
| I always want to have you, by my side.
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| Que no me falte cuando yo muera
| That I do not miss when I die
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| una milonga para cantar. | a milonga to sing. |