Translation of the song lyrics Dona estrangera - Manel

Dona estrangera (original)

El teu avi tenia un bigoti llarg i blanc
I el sucava en cervesa tèbia en tavernes dels Alps
Pels matins les teves tietes baixen a banyar-se
A una platja escenari de la Segona Guerra Mundial
Dona estrangera
Com em veuen els teus ulls?
Ton pare destil·la prunes i les deixa fermentar
I en fires ex-soviètiques ven licors de vuitanta graus
Al jardí la teva àvia vesteix quimono blanc
Mentre el sol vermell es pon entre les branques d’un bonsai
Dona estrangera
Com em veuen els teus ulls?
Dona estrangera
Mentre ballem em mullen les aigües del Rin
Entro amb un tanc rus a Berlín
M’espanta el teu passat viking
Mentre ens besem entre copes d’arbres gegants
Ta mare resa a déus estranys
Ton pare educa uns elefants
Quan fem l’amor dos-cents dansaires otomans
Giren contents al meu voltant
Somriuen i piquen de mans
I ens abracem i pujo en un tramvia groc
Passejo entre obres del Barroc
Em perdo en la Terra del Foc

(translation)

Your grandfather had a long, white mustache
And he soaked it in warm beer in Alpine taverns
In the mornings your aunts go down to bathe
On a beach scene of World War II
Foreign woman
How do your eyes see me?
Your father distills plums and leaves them to ferment
And at ex-Soviet fairs he sells liquors of eighty degrees
In the garden, your grandmother is wearing a white kimono
As the red sun sets between the branches of a bonsai
Foreign woman
How do your eyes see me?
Foreign woman
While we dance, the waters of the Rhine wet me
I enter Berlin with a Russian tank
I'm scared of your Viking past
As we kiss between giant tree tops
Your mother prays to strange gods
Your father is raising some elephants
When we make love to two hundred Ottoman dancers
They turn happily around me
They smile and clap their hands
And we hugged and got on a yellow tram
Walk between Baroque works
I get lost in Tierra del Fuego