| Pagando antiguas locuras y ahogando mi triste queja
| Paying old follies and drowning my sad complaint
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| Volví a buscar en la vieja aquellas hondas ternuras
| I went back to look for in the old woman those deep tendernesses
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| Que abandonadas deje, y al verme nada me dijo,
| That I left abandoned, and when he saw me nothing he told me,
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| Por mis torpezas pasadas, palabras dulcificadas
| For my past clumsiness, sweetened words
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| De amor por el hijo, tan solo escuche
| Of love for the son, just listen
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| Besos y amores, amistades, bellas farsas,
| Kisses and loves, friendships, beautiful farces,
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| Y rosadas ilusiones en el mundo hay a montones,
| And there are plenty of rosy illusions in the world,
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| Por desgracia madre hay una sola
| Unfortunately mother there is only one
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| Y aunque un día lo olvide, me enseño al final la vida,
| And even if one day I forget, life taught me at the end,
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| Que a ese amor hay que volver
| That to that love you have to return
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| Y nadie venga a arrancarme del lado de quien me adora,
| And no one comes to tear me from the side of the one who adores me,
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| De que quien con fe bienhechora se esfuerza por consolarme
| That who with beneficent faith strives to comfort me
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| De mi pasado dolor
| of my past pain
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| Las tentaciones son vanas para burlar su cario,
| Temptations are vain to mock his love,
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| Para ella soy siempre niño
| For her I am always a child
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| Benditas sus canas
| Blessed are your gray hairs
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| Bendito su amor
| blessed your love
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| Besos y amores, amistades, bellas farsas,
| Kisses and loves, friendships, beautiful farces,
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| Y rosadas ilusiones en el mundo hay a montones,
| And there are plenty of rosy illusions in the world,
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| Por desgracia madre hay una sola
| Unfortunately mother there is only one
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| Y aunque un día lo olvide, me enseñó al final la vida,
| And although one day I forget, she taught me life at the end,
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| Que a ese amor hay que volver | That to that love you have to return |