| Tonto el que no entienda
| Fool who does not understand
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| Cuenta una leyenda
| The history tells
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| Que una hembra gitana
| that a gypsy female
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| Conjuro a la luna hasta el amanecer,
| I conjure the moon until dawn,
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| Llorando pedia
| crying peda
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| Al llegar el dia
| when the day arrives
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| Desposar un cale.
| Marry a cale.
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| 'Tendras a tu hombre piel morena,
| 'You will have your man brown skin,
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| Desde el cielo hablo la luna llena,
| From the sky I speak the full moon,
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| Pero a cambio quiero
| But in return I want
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| El hijo primero
| son first
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| Que le engendres a el
| that you beget him
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| Que quien su hijo inmola
| That whoever immolates his son
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| Para no estar sola
| To not be alone
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| Poco le iba a querer'
| I wasn't going to love him
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| Luna quiere ser madre
| Luna wants to be a mother
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| Y no encuentras querer
| And you don't find love
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| Que te haga mujer
| make you a woman
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| Dime luna de plata
| tell me silver moon
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| Que pretendes hacer
| what do you intend to do
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| Con un nino de piel
| with a fur child
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| Hijo de la Luna
| Child of the moon
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| De padre canelo nacio un nino
| From father canelo a boy was born
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| Blanco como el lomo de un armino
| White as the back of an ermine
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| Con los ojos grises
| with gray eyes
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| En vez de aceituna
| instead of olive
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| Nino albino de luna
| albino moon boy
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| 'Maldita su estampa
| 'Damn your stamp
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| Este hijo es de un payo
| This son is from a payo
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| Y yo no me lo cayo'
| And I didn't drop it
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| Gitano al creerse deshonrado
| Gypsy believing himself dishonored
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| Se fue a su mujer cuchillo en mano
| He went to his wife, knife in hand
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| ?De quien es el hijo?
| Whose son is it?
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| Me has engano fijo,
| You have deceived me,
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| Y de muerte la hirio.
| And he wounded her to death.
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| Luego se hizo al monte
| Then she went to the mountain
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| Con el nino en brazos
| With the child in her arms
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| Y alli le abandono
| And there I leave him
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| Y en las noches que haya luna llena
| And on nights when there is a full moon
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| Sera porque el nino esta de buenas
| It will be because the child is in a good mood
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| Y si el nino llora
| And if the child cries
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| Menguara la luna
| the moon will wane
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| Para hacerle una cuna
| to make a crib
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| Y si el nino llora
| And if the child cries
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| Menguara la luna
| the moon will wane
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| Para hacerle una cuna... | To make a crib... |