| Yo debí serrano cortarme las venas
| I should have cut my wrists
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| Cuando ante los ayes d euna copla mía
| When before the woes of a song of mine
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| Pusiste en vilo mi carne morena
| You put my brown meat on edge
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| Con unas palabras que no conocía
| With some words that she didn't know
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| Sólo de pensarlo me da escalofrío
| Just thinking about it gives me chills
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| ¡Que ciega que fui!
| How blind I was!
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| Cuando con tus ojos, mirando los míos
| When with your eyes, looking into mine
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| Dijiste así:
| You said like this:
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| Dame limosna de amores
| Give me alms of love
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| Dolores
| pains
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| Dámela por caridad
| give it to me for charity
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| Pon en mi cruz unas flores
| Put some flowers on my cross
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| Dolores
| pains
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| Y Dios te lo pagará
| And God will pay you
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| No me niegues mi serrana el aguita para beber
| Do not deny me my serrana the little water to drink
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| Ten piedad samaritana de lo amargo de mi ser
| Have pity Samaritan on the bitterness of my being
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| ¿No te da pena que llore?
| Aren't you sorry that I cry?
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| Dolores
| pains
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| ¿No te da pena de mi?
| Don't you feel sorry for me?
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| Dame limosna de amores
| Give me alms of love
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| Dámela tu mi Dolores
| Give it to me my Dolores
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| Porque me voy a morir
| Because I'm going to die
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| Yo no necesito tus pobres caudales
| I do not need your poor flows
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| Ni quiero que cumplas aquel juramento;
| Nor do I want you to fulfill that oath;
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| Me basta y me sobra que llores canales
| It's enough for me and it's enough for me to cry channels
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| Comido de pena y de remordimiento
| Eaten with sorrow and remorse
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| Pero lo que nunca jamás de la vida
| But what never ever of life
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| Podrás tu saber
| you will be able to know
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| Es que hasta el momento que esté en la agonía
| It is that until the moment that I am in the agony
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| Te habré de querer | I will have to love you |