| Es viernes santo en Sevilla
| It's Good Friday in Seville
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| La de los peines esta en los balcones
| The one with the combs is on the balconies
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| Atavia con la mantilla
| Attire with the mantilla
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| Es viernes santo en Sevilla
| It's Good Friday in Seville
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| La de los peines esta en los balcones
| The one with the combs is on the balconies
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| Atavia con la mantilla
| Attire with the mantilla
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| Y el pelo lleno de flores
| And hair full of flowers
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| Pastora esta en un balcon
| Pastora is on a balcony
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| La Macarena se para enfrente
| The Macarena stands in front
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| Se oye un hilillo de voz
| You hear a trickle of voice
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| Un hilillo de voz muy fino
| A very fine thread of voice
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| Que se quiebra con el aire
| That breaks with the air
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| Y la gitana se templa
| And the gypsy warms up
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| Los cirios bailan el cante
| The candles dance the song
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| Que esa garganta de oro
| That that throat of gold
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| Tiene que estar bendecida
| she must be blessed
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| Por todos los Santos del cielo
| For all the saints in heaven
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| La guardan como un tesoro
| They keep it like a treasure
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| Y a veces se escucha en el universo
| And sometimes she is heard in the universe
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| Que pena que pena
| what a pity what a pity
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| Señor del paño que pena
| Lord of the cloth what a pity
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| El no haberte conocido
| not having met you
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| No haberte escuchado cantar por Cartageneras
| Not having heard you sing for Cartageneras
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| Que pena que pena
| what a pity what a pity
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| Señor de paño que pena
| Lord of cloth what a pity
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| Que fue lo que cantaste
| what was it that you sang
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| Que todavia andan soñando
| who are still dreaming
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| Miles de estrellas miles de astros
| thousands of stars thousands of stars
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| Que voz mas bella
| what a beautiful voice
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| La mejor de todos los tiempos
| The best of all time
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| Es su cante la veleta
| It is her cante of her the vane
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| La que disloca a los vientos
| The one that dislocates the winds
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| Los lleva hasta el reino de ella
| Leads them to her kingdom
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| De tus suspiros niña que mana
| From your sighs girl that flows
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| Que mana que a mi me quema el aire
| That she flows that the air burns me
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| La llama de tu garganta ay
| The flame of your throat oh
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| Mi voz no te conocia
| my voice did not know you
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| Aun asi en mis sueños estabas
| Still in my dreams you were
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| Viendo que te encontraba
| Seeing that she found you
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| Tu voz me sirvio de guia
| Your voice served as a guide
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| Y era yo presa del alma
| And I was a prisoner of the soul
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| Esta noche me ha traido
| tonight has brought me
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| La brisa tu cantar
| the breeze you sing
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| Tu cantar que me han llegado
| You sing that I have reached
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| A mi los aires de otros iempos
| To me the airs of other times
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| Y los quiero yo guardar
| And I want to keep them
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| Que me has traido tu Pastora
| That you have brought me, your Pastor
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| Los recuerdos de Pepe Pinto y de Tomas
| The memories of Pepe Pinto and Tomas
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| De Tomas la alameda la campana la saeta y la tona
| From Tomas the Alameda the bell the saeta and the tone
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| Cuatro puntales sostienes los reyes de la solea
| Four struts hold the kings of the solea
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| Ni el sol ni el lubrican de la tarde
| Neither the sun nor the oil of the afternoon
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| Ni el sol despiertan tanta hermosura
| Not even the sun awakens such beauty
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| Como el metal de tu voz | Like the metal of your voice |