| Con diez cañones por banda*
| With ten cannonry per band*
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| Viento en popa, a toda vela,
| Wind in their sails,
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| No corta el mar, sino vuela
| Does not cut the sea, but flies
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| Un velero bergatín.
| A brig sailing ship.
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| Bajel pirata que llaman,
| pirate vessel they call,
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| Por su bravura, El Temido,
| For his bravery of him, the Feared One,
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| En todo mar conocido
| In every known sea
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| Del uno al otro confín.
| From one to the other border.
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| Navega, velero mío
| Sail my sailboat
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| Sin temor,
| Without fear,
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| Que ni enemigo navío
| That neither enemy ship
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| Ni tormenta, ni bonanza
| Neither storm nor bonanza
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| Tu rumbo a torcer alcanza,
| Your direction to twist reaches,
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| Ni a sujetar tu valor.
| Nor to hold your value.
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| Veinte presas
| twenty dams
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| Hemos hecho
| We have done
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| A despecho
| despite
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| Del inglés
| Of English
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| Y han rendido
| and they have surrendered
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| Sus pendones
| your banners
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| Cien naciones
| hundred nations
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| A mis pies.
| To my feet.
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| Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
| That my ship is my treasure,
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| Que es mi dios la libertad,
| What is my god freedom,
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| Mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
| My law, the force and the wind,
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| Mi única patria, la mar.
| My only homeland, the sea.
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| La luna en el mar riela
| The moon in the sea shimmers
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| En la lona gime el viento,
| On the canvas the wind moans,
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| Y alza en blando movimiento
| And it rises in soft movement
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| Olas de plata y azul;
| Silver and blue waves;
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| Y va el capitán pirata,
| And goes the pirate captain,
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| Cantando alegre en la popa,
| Singing merrily in the stern,
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| Asia a un lado, al otro Europa,
| Asia on one side, Europe on the other,
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| Y alláa su frente Istambul:
| And there in front of Istanbul:
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| Allámuevan feroz guerra
| there they move fierce war
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| Ciegos reyes
| blind kings
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| Por un palmo más de tierra;
| For one more inch of land;
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| Que yo aquítengo por mío
| That I here for mine
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| Cuanto abarca el mar bravío,
| How much does the wild sea cover,
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| A quien nadie impuso leyes.
| To whom nobody imposed laws.
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| Y no hay playa,
| And there is no beach
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| Sea cualquiera,
| be anyone,
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| Ni bandera
| no flag
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| De esplendor,
| of splendor,
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| Que no sienta
| not feel
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| Mi derecho
| My right
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| Y dépechos mi valor.
| And depechos my value.
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| En las presas
| in the dams
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| yo divido
| I divide
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| lo cogido
| what caught
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| por igual;
| alike;
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| sólo quiero
| I only want
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| por riqueza
| for wealth
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| la belleza
| the beauty
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| sin rival.
| non-rival.
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| Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
| That my ship is my treasure,
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| que es mi dios la libertad,
| that freedom is my god,
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| mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
| my law, the force and the wind,
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| mi única patria, la mar.
| my only homeland, the sea.
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| ¡Sentenciado estoy a muerte!
| I am sentenced to death!
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| Yo me ríono
| I laugh
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| no me abandone la suerte,
| do not leave me the luck,
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| y al mismo que me condena,
| and the same one that condemns me,
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| colgaréde alguna antena,
| I will hang from some antenna,
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| quizáen su propio navío.
| perhaps on his own ship.
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| Y si caigo,
| And if I fall
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| ?qués la vida?
| what is life?
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| Por perdida
| for lost
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| ya la di,
| I already told her,
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| cuando el yugo
| when the yoke
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| del esclavo,
| of the slave,
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| como un bravo,
| like a bravo,
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| sacudí.
| I shook.
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| Y del trueno
| and of thunder
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| al son violento,
| when they are violent,
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| y del viento
| and of the wind
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| al rebramar,
| when roaring,
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| yo me duermo
| I sleep
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| sosegado,
| sedate,
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| arrullado
| lulled
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| por el mar.
| by sea.
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| Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
| That my ship is my treasure,
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| que es mi dios la libertad,
| that freedom is my god,
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| mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
| my law, the force and the wind,
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| mi única patria, la mar | my only homeland, the sea |