| El Último Cuplé: El relicario (original) | El Último Cuplé: El relicario (translation) |
|---|---|
| Un día de San Eugenio | A day of Saint Eugene |
| Yendo hacia el prado le conocí | Going to the meadow I met him |
| Era el torero de más tronio | He was the bullfighter of more tronio |
| Y el más castizo de to Madrid | And the most traditional of Madrid |
| Iba en calesa | I was in a carriage |
| Pidiendo guerra | asking for war |
| Y yo al mirarlo | and me looking at it |
| Me estremeci | I shuddered |
| Y el al notarlo | And when he noticed |
| Bajo del coche | Under the car |
| Y muy garboso | and very graceful |
| Se vino a mi | he came to me |
| Tiro la capa | I throw the cape |
| Con gesto altivo | with a proud gesture |
| Y descubriendose | and discovering |
| Me dijo asi: | He told me like this: |
| Pisa morena | stomps brunette |
| Pisa con garbo | Step with grace |
| Que un relicario | what a locket |
| Que un relicario me voy hacer | What a locket I'm going to make |
| Con el trocito de mi capote | With the piece of my cape |
| Que haya pasado | what happened |
| Que haya pisado tan lindo pie | That you have stepped on such a beautiful foot |
| Un lunes abrileño el toreaba | One April Monday he fought |
| Y a verlo fui | and I went to see it |
| Nunca lo hiciera que aquella tarde | I never did that afternoon |
| De sentimiento crei morir | Of feeling I thought I would die |
| Al dar un lance | When giving a cast |
| Cayo en la arena | I fell in the sand |
| Se sintio herido | he felt hurt |
| Miró hacia mi | He looked at me |
| Y un relicario | and a locket |
| Saco del pecho | chest sack |
| Que yo enseguida | that I immediately |
| Reconoci | recognized |
| Cuando el torero | when the bullfighter |
| Caia inerte | inert caia |
| En su delirio | in his delirium |
| Decia asi: | He said like this: |
| Pisa morena | stomps brunette |
| Pisa con garbo | Step with grace |
| Que un relicario | what a locket |
| Que un relicario me voy hacer | What a locket I'm going to make |
| Con el trocito de mi capote | With the piece of my cape |
| Que haya pasado | what happened |
| Que haya pisado tan lindo pie | That you have stepped on such a beautiful foot |
