| Dejame hablarte de mi madre compañero
| Let me tell you about my mother partner
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| Es un angel del cielo, pero me habla del diario
| He is an angel from heaven, but he tells me about the newspaper
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| Y atenderla no puedo, me habla en la casa, al celular
| And I can't attend to her, she talks to me at home, on the cell phone
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| O en mi trabajo, para contarme una vez mas la misma historia,
| Or at my work, to tell me the same story once again,
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| Me cambia el nombre
| change my name
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| Me confunde con mi padre
| He confuses me with my father
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| Mi pobre madre esta perdiendo la memoria.
| My poor mother is losing her memory.
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| Mira mi amigo, yo tambien hace unos meses a mi madre querida
| Look my friend, me too a few months ago to my dear mother
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| Cada vez que me hablaba me le negue mil veces
| Every time she spoke to me she denied me a thousand times
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| Se me olvido que alguna vez aquella santa me dio la vida
| I forgot that once upon a time that saint gave me life
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| Y a mi lado siempre estuvo
| And she was always by my side
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| La conciencia me grito no seas ingrato
| My conscience yelled at me, don't be ungrateful
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| Tenle paciencia como ella te la tuvo.
| Be patient with her as she was with you.
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| Y ahora que haces cuentamelo amigo mio
| And now what are you doing tell me my friend
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| Hoy le hablo a diario y voy a verla más seguido
| Today I speak to her daily and I will see her more often
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| Como no amar a quien me ama sin medida,
| How not to love who she loves me without measure,
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| A esa señora todo amor, todo ternura
| To that lady all love, all tenderness
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| Ahora mismo voy y me la como a besos.
| Right now I go and eat her with kisses.
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| Haces muy bien, llena su alma de dulzura
| You do very well, fill her soul with sweetness
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| Mírame a mi yo hablo a diario con mi madre,
| Look at me, I talk to my mother every day,
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| Ojala me oiga desde alla en su cepultura
| I hope she hears me from beyond her in her cepultura
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| «Una esposa es un oro molido, un hijo es un diamante
| "A wife is ground gold, a child is a diamond
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| Y una madre, es la tierra donde se forjan esos tesoros»
| And a mother is the land where those treasures are forged»
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| Y ahora que haces cuentamelo amigo mio
| And now what are you doing tell me my friend
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| Hoy le hablo a diario y voy a verla más seguido
| Today I speak to her daily and I will see her more often
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| Como no amar a quien me ama sin medida,
| How not to love someone who loves me without measure,
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| A esa señora todo amor, todo ternura
| To that lady all love, all tenderness
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| Ahora mismo voy y me la como a besos.
| Right now I go and eat her with kisses.
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| Haces muy bien, llena su alma de dulzura
| You do very well, fill her soul with sweetness
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| Mírame a mi yo hablo a diario con mi madre,
| Look at me, I talk to my mother every day,
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| Ojala me oiga desde alla en su cepultura | I hope she hears me from beyond her in her cepultura |