| She was blonde and her eyes were blue
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| reflected the glory of the day
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| and she sang like a calandria
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| the pulpera of Santa Lucia.
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| She was the flower of the old parish.
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| Who was the gaucho who didn't want her?
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| The soldiers of four barracks
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| they sighed in the grocery store.
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| She sang the payador mazorquero
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| with a sweet moan of vihuelas
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| at the gate that smelled of jasmine,
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| in the patio that smelled like diamonds.
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| I love you with my soul, pulpera,
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| and one day you will have to be mine,
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| while they fill the nights of the neighborhood
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| the guitars of Santa Lucia.
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| It was worn by a payador from Lavalle
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| when the year forty she died.
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| They no longer illuminate their blue eyes
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| the parish of Santa Lucia.
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| The horns of Rosas did not return
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| to sing vidalas and heavens.
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| At the gate of the grocery store
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| the jasmines wept with jealousy.
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| And the mazorquero payador returned
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| to sing in the empty courtyard
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| the mourning and final serenade
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| Let the wind of the river take away.
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| Where are you with your blue eyes,
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| oh pulpera that were not mine?
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| How the guitars cry for you,
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| the guitars of Santa Lucia! |