| Por una calle tan corta como usted
| Down a street as short as you
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| Que va a zancadas y empujando
| That goes striding and pushing
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| Como es que va
| how is it going
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| Una callecita corta
| a short street
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| No la cruce sin mirar
| Do not cross it without looking
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| Feliz, el primo Félix es feliz
| Happy, cousin Felix is happy
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| Tumbao al sol de la nada
| Lying in the sun out of nowhere
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| Con el deo en la nariz
| With the deo in the nose
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| Mal flotaba por los bares
| Mal floated through the bars
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| Náufrago en la capital
| Castaway in the capital
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| Y que mal flotaba por los bares
| And how badly it floated through the bars
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| Marinerito viejo
| old sailor
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| Sin ver sus playas;
| Without seeing its beaches;
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| Y apaga sus motores
| And turn off your engines
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| Y así naufraga, y así naufraga
| And so it is shipwrecked, and so it is shipwrecked
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| No digo yo que no rías
| I'm not saying don't laugh
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| No digo yo que no goces
| I'm not saying you don't enjoy
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| Lo que te pido es que bajes
| What I ask of you is that you come down
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| La musiquita del coche
| The music of the car
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| A la fuente del reniego
| To the source of renounce
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| Yo le he renegao el agua
| I have denied him the water
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| Y esa agüita no la bebo
| And I don't drink that little water
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| Que sabe salá y amarga;
| That she tastes salty and bitter;
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| Y a la fuente del reniego, ay
| And to the source of the denial, oh
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| Que yo le he renegao el agua
| That I have denied him the water
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| Que la memoria lo olvide
| Let the memory forget
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| Me vienes tú a aconsejar
| you come to advise me
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| Anda y pídele a los peces
| Go and ask the fish
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| Que se olviden de nadar
| that they forget to swim
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| Y al hormigón que no pese
| And to the concrete that does not weigh
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| Serafino, Serafino, ¿adónde lleva el Juanelo?
| Serafino, Serafino, where is Juanelo leading?
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| Bahía de su cintura, ya no está tu embarcadero | Bay of his waist, your pier is no longer |