| Con sombrero negro, con chaqueta corta
| With a black hat, with a short jacket
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| En la brujas horas del anochecer
| In the witching hours of dusk
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| Por mi calle abajo pasaba un mocito
| Down my street a boy passed
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| Del que sin saberlo yo me enamore
| The one that without knowing it I fell in love
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| Un domingo claro que abril sonreía
| A clear Sunday that April smiled
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| Se paro en mi reja gallardo y juncal
| He stood on my fence gallardo and juncal
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| Y me dijo alegre: «con usted mi vida
| And he told me happily: «with you my life
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| Unas palabritas tengo yo que hablar»
| I have a few words to speak»
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| Y hablamos de muchas cosas
| And we talked about many things
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| Que el viento se las llevo
| Let the wind take them
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| Tan solamente una copla
| just a couplet
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| En mi alma se quedo
| In my soul it stayed
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| Rocío, ay mi Rocío!
| Rocío, oh my Rocío!
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| Manojito de claveles
| bunch of carnations
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| Capullito florecido;
| flower bud;
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| De pensar en tus quereres
| To think about your wishes
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| Voy a perder el sentido
| I'm going to lose consciousness
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| Porque te quiero mi vida
| Because I love you my life
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| Como nadie te ha querido
| Like no one has loved you
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| Rocío ay mi Rocío!
| Rocío oh my Rocío!
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| Se alejó el mocito de la vera mía
| The boy moved away from my side
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| Fue mentira todo lo que me juro
| Everything I swore to myself was a lie
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| Y mis ojos lloran tras la celosía
| And my eyes cry behind the lattice
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| Por aquel cariño que se marchito
| For that love that withered
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| Ayer por la tarde hablando en su oido
| Yesterday afternoon speaking in his ear
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| Con otra del brazo le he visto pasar;
| With another arm I have seen him pass;
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| Me ha vuelto la cara, no se ha conmovido
| She has turned her face to me, she has not been moved
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| Pero estoy segura que me vio llorar
| But I'm sure she saw me cry
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| Que a pesar de sus desprecios
| That despite their contempt
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| Yo no lo puedo olvidar
| I can't forget it
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| Me acuerdo de aquella copla
| I remember that couplet
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| Que un día le oí cantar | That one day I heard him sing |