Translation of the song lyrics Epopeya de Edipo de Tebas - Les Luthiers

Epopeya de Edipo de Tebas (original)

De Edipo de Tebas
Haciendo memoria
Os cuento la historia
Con penas y glorias
De Edipo de Tebas
Le dijo el oráculo
Edipo tu vida
Se pone movida
Serás parricida
Le dijo el oráculo
Seguía diciendo
Si bien yo detesto
Hablarte de esto
Se viene, se viene un incesto
Seguía diciendo
Sabiendo tal cosa
Su padre el rey Layo
Veloz como un rayo
Le dijo a un lacayo
Sabiendo tal cosa
Te irás con mi hijo
No quiero que crezca
Haz tu que perezca
Como te parezca
Te irás con mi hijo
Cumplida la orden
El muy desdichado
Con los pies atados
Quedose, quedose colgado
Cumplida la orden
Edipo salvose
Y a Layo matolo
Peleándolo él solo
Al cielo enviolo
Edipo salvose
Semanas mas tarde
A Tebas avanza
Resolver alcanza
Cierta adivinanza
Semanas mas tarde
La Esfinge de Tebas
Al ser derrotada
Se ofusca, se enfada
Y se hace, y se hace pomada
La Esfinge de Tebas
Y sin darse cuenta
Casado él está
Con quien saben ya
Su propia mamá
Y sin darse cuenta
De sus propios hijos
Hay larga secuela
Y aunque esto le duela
Yocasta es abuela
De sus propios hijos
Edipo al saberlo
En una entrevista
Con su analista
Se quita, se quita la vista
Edipo al saberlo
Al ver a una esfinge
Planteando un dilema
Huid del problema
Cambiando de tema
Al ver a una esfinge
Madres amantes
Tomad precauciones
Por las efusiones
De hijos varones
Madres amantes
Por no repetir
La historia nefasta
De Edipo y Yocasta
Lo dicho, lo dicho ya basta
Por no repetir

Epopeya de Edipo de Tebas (translation)

Of Oedipus of Thebes
Making memory
I tell you the story
With sorrows and glories
Of Oedipus of Thebes
the oracle told him
oedipus your life
she gets active
you will be a parricide
the oracle told him
kept saying
although I hate
talk to you about this
It is coming, an incest is coming
kept saying
Knowing such a thing
His father of him King Laius
fast as lightning
he told a footman
Knowing such a thing
you will go with my son
I don't want it to grow
make you perish
as you like
you will go with my son
the order fulfilled
the very unfortunate
with bound feet
He hung, he hung
the order fulfilled
Oedipus saved himself
And I killed Laius
fighting it alone
I send it to heaven
Oedipus saved himself
weeks later
to Thebes advances
solve reaches
certain riddle
weeks later
The Sphinx of Thebes
being defeated
He gets angry, he gets angry
And it's done, and it's made ointment
The Sphinx of Thebes
and without realizing
married he is
With whom do you already know?
his own mom
and without realizing
of their own children
there is long sequel
And although this hurts
Jocasta is a grandmother
of their own children
Oedipus knowing
In an interview
With your analyst
It takes off, it takes off the view
Oedipus knowing
Seeing a sphinx
posing a dilemma
run away from the problem
Changing the subject
Seeing a sphinx
loving mothers
take precautions
for the effusions
Of male children
loving mothers
for not repeating
the grim story
Of Oedipus and Jocasta
What has been said, what has been said is enough
for not repeating