| Me dio una sirimba un domingo en la mañana
| He gave me a sirimba one Sunday morning
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| Cuando menos lo pensaba
| When I least expected it
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| Caí redondo, como una guan’bana, sobre la alcantarilla
| I fell round, like a soursop, on the sewer
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| Será la presión o me ha subido la bilirrubina
| Could it be the pressure or has my bilirubin gone up
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| Y me entro la calentura
| And I got the fever
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| Y me fui poniendo blanco como bola (d)e naftalina
| And I was turning white as a naphthalene ball
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| Me llevaron a un hospital de gente (supuestamente)
| They took me to a people's hospital (supposedly)
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| En la Emergencia, el recepcionista escuchaba la lotería
| In the Emergency, the receptionist listened to the lottery
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| (¡treinta mil pesos!)
| (thirty thousand pesos!)
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| ¡Alguien se apiade de mí!
| Somebody have mercy on me!
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| Grité perdiendo el sentido
| I screamed losing consciousness
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| Y una enfermera se acercó a mi oreja y me dijo:
| And a nurse came up to my ear and said:
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| «Tranquilo, Bobby, tranquilo»
| "Easy Bobby, Easy"
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| Me acarició con sus manos de Ben Gay y me dijo:
| She caressed me with her Ben Gay hands and said:
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| «¿Qué le pasa, atleta?»
| "What's wrong, athlete?"
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| Y le conté con lujo de detalles lo que me había sucedido
| And I told him in great detail what had happened to me
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| Hay que chequearte la presión
| You have to check your pressure
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| Pero la sala está ocupada y, mi querido
| But the room is occupied and, my dear
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| En este hospital no hay luz para un electrocardiograma
| In this hospital there is no light for an EKG
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| Abrí los ojos como luna llena y me agarré la cabeza
| I opened my eyes like a full moon and I clutched my head
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| Porque es muy duro
| because it is very hard
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| Pasar el Niágara en bicicleta
| Pass Niagara by bicycle
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| No me digan que los médicos se fueron
| Don't tell me the doctors left
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| No me digan que no tienen anestesia
| Don't tell me they don't have anesthesia
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| No me digan que el alcohol se lo bebieron
| Don't tell me that the alcohol was drunk
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| Y que el hilo de coser
| And that the sewing thread
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| Fue bordado en un mantel
| It was embroidered on a tablecloth
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| No me digan que las pinzas se perdieron
| Don't tell me the tweezers got lost
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| Que el estetoscopio esta de fiesta
| That the stethoscope is partying
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| Que los rayos X se fundieron
| That the X-rays melted
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| Y que el suero ya se uso
| And that the serum has already been used
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| Para endulzar el café
| To sweeten the coffee
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| Me apoye de sus hombros como un cojo a su muleta
| I leaned on his shoulders like a lame man on his crutch
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| Y le dije: «¿Qué hago, princesa?»
| And I said, "What do I do, princess?"
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| Y en un papel de receta me escribió muy dulcemente:
| And on a prescription paper she wrote me very sweetly:
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| (mi princesa, ¿qué va a ser de mí?, uh…)
| (my princess, what will become of me?, uh…)
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| «Lo siento, atleta»
| "Sorry, athlete"
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| Me acarició con sus manos de Ben Gay y siguió su destino
| She caressed me with her Ben Gay hands and followed her fate
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| Y o' claramente cuando dijo a otro paciente:
| And o 'clearly when he said to another patient:
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| «Tranquilo, Bobby, tranquilo»
| "Easy Bobby, Easy"
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| Bajé los ojos a media asta y me agarró la cabeza
| I lowered my eyes to half-staff and he grabbed my head
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| Porque es muy duro
| because it is very hard
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| Pasar el Niágara en bicicleta
| Pass Niagara by bicycle
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| No me digan que los médicos se fueron
| Don't tell me the doctors left
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| No me digan que no tienen anestesia
| Don't tell me they don't have anesthesia
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| No me digan que el alcohol se lo bebieron
| Don't tell me that the alcohol was drunk
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| Y que el hilo de coser
| And that the sewing thread
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| Fue bordado en un mantel
| It was embroidered on a tablecloth
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| No me digan que las pinzas se perdieron
| Don't tell me the tweezers got lost
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| Que el estetoscopio está de fiesta
| That the stethoscope is partying
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| Que los rayos X se fundieron
| That the X-rays melted
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| Y que el suero ya se uso
| And that the serum has already been used
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| Para endulzar el café
| To sweeten the coffee
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| No me digan que me va cayendo
| Don't tell me that I'm falling
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| De tanto dolor
| of so much pain
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| No me digan que las aspirinas
| Don't tell me that aspirin
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| Cambian de color
| They change color
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| No me digan que me van pariendo
| Do not tell me that they are giving birth to me
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| Que le falta amor
| that love is missing
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| No me digan que le esta latiendo, oh no… | Don't tell me what's beating you, oh no... |