| A pesar del mucho tiempo
| despite the long time
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| Desde entonces transcurrido
| Since then elapsed
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| Aún mi pecho conmovido
| Still my chest moved
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| Se recuerda con dolor
| It is remembered with pain
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| De aquel día que, en paseo
| From that day when, on a walk
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| Vino a un banco una cieguita
| A blind woman came to a bank
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| Y a su lado una viejita
| And next to her an old lady
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| Que era su guía y su amor
| That was her guide her and her love
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| Y observé que la chiquita
| And I observed that the little girl
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| De ojos grandes y vacíos
| With big empty eyes
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| Escuchaba el griterío
| I heard the screaming
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| De otras nenas al saltar
| Of other girls when jumping
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| Y la oí que amargamente
| And I heard her bitterly
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| En un son que era de queja
| In a son that was a complaint
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| Preguntábale a la vieja:
| I asked the old woman:
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| ¿Por qué yo no he de jugar?
| Why shouldn't I play?
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| Y a punto fijo no sé
| And at a fixed point I don't know
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| Si el dolor que sentí
| If the pain that I felt
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| Fue escuchando la voz de la nena
| He was listening to the girl's voice
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| O fue que cuando miré
| Or was it that when I looked
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| A su vieja advertí
| I warned his old woman
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| Que lloraba en silencio su pena
| That she silently cried her sorrow
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| ¡Ay, cieguita!
| Oh, blind girl!
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| Dije yo con gran pesar
| I said with great regret
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| Ven conmigo, pobrecita
| Come with me, poor thing
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| Le di un beso y la cieguita
| I gave her a kiss and the blind girl
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| Tuvo ya con quien jugar
| She already had someone to play with
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| Y fue así que diariamente
| And it was so daily
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| Al llegar con su viejita
| When he arrived with his old lady
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| Me buscaba la cieguita
| the blind woman was looking for me
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| Con tantísimo interés
| with so much interest
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| ¡Qué feliz era la pobre
| How happy was the poor
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| Cuando junto a mi llegaba
| When she next to me she arrived
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| Y con sus mimos lograba
| And she with her pampering managed
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| Que jugásemos los tres…
| Let the three of us play...
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| Pero un día, bien me acuerdo
| But one day, I well remember
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| No fue más que la viejita
| She was nothing more than the old lady
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| Que me dijo: La cieguita
| That she told me: The blind girl
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| Está a punto de expirar…
| She is about to expire...
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| Fuí corriendo hasta su cuna
| I ran to his crib
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| La cieguita se moría
| the blind woman was dying
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| Y al morirse me decía:
| And when she died she told me:
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| ¿Con quén vas ahora a jugar?
| Who are you going to play with now?
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| Y a punto fijo no sé
| And at a fixed point I don't know
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| Si el dolor que sentí
| If the pain that I felt
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| Fue escuchando el adiós de la nena
| He was listening to the girl's goodbye
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| O fue que cuando miré
| Or was it that when I looked
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| A su vieja advertí
| I warned his old woman
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| Que lloraba en silencio su pena
| That she silently cried her sorrow
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| ¿Ay, cieguita!
| Oh, blind girl!
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| Yo no te podré olvidar;
| I will not be able to forget you;
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| Pues me acuerdo de mi hijita
| Well, I remember my little daughter
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| Que también era cieguita
| That she was also blind
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| Y no podía jugar… | And she couldn't play... |