| Te debo una canción pequeña y frágil
| I owe you a fragile little song
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| Que esté como naciendo, patria mía
| That is like being born, my homeland
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| Te debo una cancion jamás cantada
| I owe you a song never sung
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| Acaso una canción que nunca escriba
| Perhaps a song that I never wrote
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| Te debo una canción que vuele alto
| I owe you a song that flies high
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| Que tenga primaveras encendidas
| Have springs lit
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| Y un loco corazón enamorado
| And a crazy heart in love
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| Queriéndote de frente, patria mía
| Loving you face to face, my homeland
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| Acaso una pequeña flor caída
| Perhaps a small fallen flower
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| Le dé sombra a mi verso un mediodía
| I shaded my verse one noon
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| Y entonces con un poco de nostalgia
| And then with a bit of nostalgia
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| Y mucho de inocencia te la escriba
| And a lot of innocence I wrote it to you
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| Te debo una canción que se parezca
| I owe you a song that resembles
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| A la gente de tu pueblo más sencilla
| To the simplest people of your town
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| Aquella que con las manos te socava
| The one who undermines you with her hands
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| Y te hace parir fecunda la semilla
| And she makes you give birth, fertilizes the seed
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| Te debo una canción jamás cantada
| I owe you a song never sung
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| Acaso una canción que nunca escriba
| Perhaps a song that I never wrote
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| Te debo una canción enamorada
| I owe you a song in love
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| Que esté como naciendo, patria mía | That is like being born, my homeland |