| Hoy siento no poder cantarte
| Today I'm sorry I can't sing to you
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| Una canción de amor
| A love song
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| Hoy tengo amigo mío
| Today I have a friend of mine
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| Roto el corazón roto el corazón
| broken heart broken heart
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| Hoy he visto un velero sin marinero
| Today I have seen a sailboat without a sailor
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| Y a la deriva jugaba
| And adrift played
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| Con las olas y se reía y se reía
| With the waves and laughed and laughed
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| Y en una playa una mujer de luto lloraba
| And on a beach a woman in mourning cried
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| Por la vida que no dio fruto, que no dio fruto
| For the life that she did not bear fruit, that she did not bear fruit
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| Y preguntaba, cuando miraba alto
| And she asked, when she looked up
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| ¿Por qué si soy tan pobre, me robas tanto
| Why, if I am so poor, do you steal so much from me?
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| Me robas tanto?
| Do you steal so much from me?
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| Tenía el viento como amigo y la mirada azul
| I had the wind as a friend and a blue gaze
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| Un sol de vacaciones y su juventud y su juventud
| A vacation sun and its youth and its youth
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| Tenía unos amigos y un pueblo viejo
| I had some friends and an old town
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| Que andaba en fiestas
| who went to parties
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| Y un barco de bidones entre la hierba
| And a boat of drums in the grass
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| Entre la hierba
| among the grass
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| El tenía el alma de viejo marinero
| He had the soul of an old sailor
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| Y se quedó en el agua con su velero
| And he stayed in the water with his sailboat
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| Con su velero
| with his sailboat
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| Y en una playa una mujer de luto lloraba por la vida
| And on a beach a woman in mourning cried for life
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| Que no dio fruto, que no dio fruto | That he did not bear fruit, that he did not bear fruit |