| La otra noche mientras iba caminando como un curda
| The other night while I was walking like a curda
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| Tranco a tranco, solo y triste, recorriendo el veredón
| Stride by stride, alone and sad, walking the veredón
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| Sentí el filo de una pena que en el lado de la zurda
| I felt the edge of a pity that on the left hand side
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| Se empeñaba traicionera por tajear mi corazón
| She was treacherous to slice my heart
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| Entre harapos lamentables, una pobre limosnera
| Among pitiful rags, a poor beggar
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| Sollozando su desgracia, a mi lado se acercó
| Sobbing her misfortune of hers, by my side she approached
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| Y al tirarle unas monedas a la vieja pordiosera
| And by throwing a few coins at the old beggar
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| Vi que el rostro avergonzado con las manos se tapó
| I saw that her embarrassed face with her hands covered
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| Vieja Recova
| Old Recova
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| Rinconada de sus días
| Corner of his days
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| La encontré sola y perdida
| I found her alone and lost
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| Como una muestra fatal
| Like a fatal sample
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| La mala suerte
| Bad luck
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| Le jugó una carta brava
| She played him a brave card
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| Se le dio vuelta la taba
| She turned her head
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| La vejez la derrotó
| Her old age defeated her
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| Vieja Recova
| Old Recova
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| Si vieras cuánto dolor
| If you saw how much pain
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| Yo la he visto cuando mozo ir tejiendo fantasías
| I have seen her when she was young weaving fantasies
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| Con sus sueños de alto vuelo y sus noches de champán
| With his high-flying dreams and his champagne nights
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| Pobrecita, quien pensara los finales de sus días
| Poor thing, who would think the end of her days
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| Y en la trágica limosna vergonzante que hoy le dan
| And in the tragic shameful alms that they give him today
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| Me alejé, Vieja Recova, de su lado, te imaginas
| I walked away, Vieja Recova, from her side of her, you can imagine
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| De la amiga de otros tiempos, qué dolor llegué a sentir
| From the friend of other times, what pain I came to feel
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| Lo que ayer fuera grandeza, hoy mostraba sólo ruinas
| What yesterday was greatness, today showed only ruins
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| Y unas lágrimas porfiadas no las pude desmentir
| And some stubborn tears I couldn't deny
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| Vieja Recova
| Old Recova
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| Rinconada de su vida
| Of her Corner of her life
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| La encontré sola y perdida
| I found her alone and lost
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| Como una muestra fatal
| Like a fatal sample
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| La mala suerte
| Bad luck
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| Le jugó una carta brava
| She played him a brave card
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| Se le dio vuelta la taba
| She turned her head
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| La vejez la derrotó
| old age defeated her
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| Vieja Recova
| Old Recova
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| Si vieras cuánto dolor | If you saw how much pain |