| ¡Yo la vi que se venía en falsa escuadra
| I saw her coming in a false squad
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| Se ladeaba, se ladeaba, por el borde del fangal!
| She was leaning, she was leaning, by the edge of the bog!
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| ¡Pobre mina que nació en un conventillo
| Poor mine who was born in a tenement
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| Con los pisos de ladrillo, el aljibe y el parral!
| With the brick floors, the cistern and the vineyard!
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| Alguien tiró la banana
| someone threw the banana
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| Que ella pisó sin querer
| that she accidentally stepped on
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| Y justito cuando vi que se venía
| And just when I saw that she was coming
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| Ya decúbito dorsal, me la agarré
| Already dorsal decubitus, I grabbed it
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| Fui un gil
| I was a gil
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| Porque creí que allí inventé el honor
| Because I thought I invented honor there
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| Un gil
| a gil
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| Que alzó un tomate y lo creyó una flor
| That she raised a tomato and believed it to be a flower
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| Y sigo gil
| And I'm still gil
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| Cuando presumo que salvé el amor
| When I presume I saved love
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| Ya que ella fue
| since she was
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| Quien a trompadas me rompió las penas
| Who with blows broke my sorrows
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| Ya ven
| Come now
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| Volví a la mugre de vivir tirao
| I returned to the filth of living tirao
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| ¡Caray!
| Wow!
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| Si al menos me engrupiera de que la he salvao
| If only I could tell that I have saved her
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| Eso dijo el cusifai mientras la cosa
| That's what the cusifai said while the thing
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| Retozaba, retozaba ya perdida en el fangal
| She frolicked, frolicked already lost in the mud
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| Y él chupaba una ginebra desastrosa
| And he was sucking on a disastrous gin
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| Entre curdas y malandras en la mesa de aquel bar
| Between curdas and malandras at the table of that bar
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| Si alguien tiró la banana
| If someone threw the banana
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| El, que era un gil, la empujó
| He, who was a gil, he pushed her
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| Y justito cuando vio que se venía
| And just when he saw that she was coming
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| Ya decúbito dorsal, se le prendió
| Already in dorsal decubitus, he caught on
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| Fui un gil | I was a gil |