Lyrics of En la costa suiza - Carmen Paris

En la costa suiza (original)

En un pueblo de allá por la costa suiza
-ohé, ohé-
Un viejo pescador
Borrachín, tranquilo, sin dar la paliza
A nadie de su alrededor
Pretendía vivir a su manera
Que era:
Salir a pescar
Y pescar
Boquerón, calamar
O alguna ballenita
-que también las da el mar-
Y después regresar
Con la frente marchita
Como dice el cantar
Que se suele volver
Y vender el pescado en la lonja
Boquerón, calamar
Una esponja
-que también las da el mar-
Y cobrar
Lo que hubiera ganado
Al vender el pescado
Y marcharse a gastar
Lo que hubiera cobrado
En comer
Y en comprar
Cuanto es menester
Poseer
E invitar a beber
Y beber hasta el anochecer
Y arrojar lo que hubiera sobrado
Del dinero cobrado
Arrojárselo al mar
Devolver
Devolverle el dinero
Y cada amanecer
Empezar desde cero
Pero muchos vecinos denunciáronle al pobre
-ohé, ohé-
Por contaminar
Que sus pocas monedas, sus «vertidos de
Cobre»
Ponían perdidito el mar
Y no pudo vivir a su manera
Que era:
Salir a pescar
Y pescar
Boquerón, calamar
O alguna ballenita
-que también las da el mar-
Y después regresar
Con la frente marchita
Como dice el cantar
Que se debe volver
Y vender el pescado en la lonja
Boquerón, calamar
Una esponja
-que también las da el mar-
Y cobrar
Lo que hubiera ganado
Al vender el pescado
Y marcharse a gastar
Lo que hubiera cobrado
En comer
Y en comprar
Cuanto es menester
Poseer
E invitar a beber
Y beber hasta el anochecer
Y arrojar lo que hubiera sobrado
Del dinero cobrado
Arrojárselo al mar
Devolver
Devolverle el dinero
Y cada amanecer
Empezar desde cero

(translation)

In a town over there on the Swiss coast
-ohe, ohe-
an old fisherman
Drunk, calm, without giving a beating
To no one around
He intended to live his way
What was it:
Go fishing
and fish
anchovy, squid
Or some little whale
-which is also given by the sea-
and then return
With the withered forehead
as the sing says
which is usually returned
And sell the fish in the fish market
anchovy, squid
A sponge
-which is also given by the sea-
and collect
what i would have won
When selling the fish
And go spend
What I would have charged
Eating
And in buy
How much is necessary
Own
And invite to drink
And drink until dark
And throw away what was left over
of the money collected
throw it into the sea
Return
pay you back
and every dawn
Starting over
But many neighbors denounced the poor
-ohe, ohe-
for polluting
That his few coins, his "spills of
Copper"
They lost the sea
And he couldn't live his way
What was it:
Go fishing
and fish
anchovy, squid
Or some little whale
-which is also given by the sea-
and then return
With the withered forehead
as the sing says
that must be returned
And sell the fish in the fish market
anchovy, squid
A sponge
-which is also given by the sea-
and collect
what i would have won
When selling the fish
And go spend
What I would have charged
Eating
And in buy
How much is necessary
Own
And invite to drink
And drink until dark
And throw away what was left over
of the money collected
throw it into the sea
Return
pay you back
and every dawn
Starting over