| Con diez cañones por banda
| With ten cannonry per band
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| Viento en popa a toda vela
| Wind in their sails
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| No corta el mar si no vuela
| It doesn't cut the sea if it doesn't fly
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| Un velero bergantín
| A brigantine sailing ship
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| Bajel pirata que llaman
| pirate vessel they call
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| Por su brabura el temido
| For his brabura the feared
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| En todo el mar conocido
| In all the known sea
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| Del uno al otro confín
| From one to the other border
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| La luna en el mar riela
| The moon in the sea shimmers
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| Y en la lona gime el viento
| And on the canvas the wind moans
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| Y alza en blando movimiento
| And it rises in soft movement
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| Olas de plata y azul
| silver and blue waves
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| Y ve el capitán pirata
| And sees the pirate captain
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| Cantando alegre en la popa
| Singing merrily in the stern
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| Asia a un lado, al otro Europa
| Asia on one side, Europe on the other
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| Y allá a su frente Estambul
| And there in front of her Istanbul
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| Navega velero mío
| Sail my sailboat
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| Sin temor que ni enemigo navío
| Without fear or enemy ship
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| Ni tormenta ni bonanza
| Neither storm nor bonanza
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| Tu rumbo a torcer alcanza
| Your direction to twist reaches
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| Ni a sujetar tu valor
| Nor to hold your value
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| Veinte presas hemos hecho
| Twenty dams we have made
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| A despecho del inglés
| Despite the English
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| Y han rendido sus pendones
| And they have surrendered their banners
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| Cien naciones a mis pies
| A hundred nations at my feet
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| Que es mi barco mi tesoro
| What is my boat my treasure
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| Que es mi dios mi libertad
| What is my god my freedom
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| Mi ley la fuerza y el viento
| My law the force and the wind
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| Mi única patria la mar
| My only homeland the sea
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| Allá muevan feroz guerras
| There they move fierce wars
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| Ciegos reyes, por un palmo más de tierra
| Blind kings, for one more span of land
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| Que yo tengo aquí por mío
| that I have here for mine
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| Cuanto abarca el mar bravío
| How much does the wild sea cover
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| A quien nadie impuso leyes
| To whom no one imposed laws
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| Y no hay playa sea cualquiera
| And there is no beach, whatever
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| Ni bandera de esplendor
| Nor flag of splendor
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| Que no sienta mi derecho
| That I don't feel my right
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| Y de pecho a mi valor
| And from my chest to my courage
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| Que es mi barco mi tesoro
| What is my boat my treasure
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| Que es mi dios mi libertad
| What is my god my freedom
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| Mi ley la fuerza y el viento
| My law the force and the wind
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| Mi única patria la mar
| My only homeland the sea
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| A la voz de barco viene
| To the ship's voice comes
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| Es de ver como bira y se previene
| It is to be seen as bira and it is prevented
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| A todo trapo escapar
| at full blast escape
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| Que yo soy el rey del mar
| That I am the king of the sea
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| Y mi furia has de temer
| And my fury you have to fear
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| En las presas yo divido
| In the dams I divide
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| Lo cogido por igual
| I caught it alike
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| Solo quiero por riqueza
| I only want for wealth
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| La belleza sin rival
| The unrivaled beauty
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| Sentenciado estoy a muerte
| I am sentenced to death
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| Yo me rio, no me abandoné a la suerte
| I laugh, I did not abandon myself to fate
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| Y al mismo que me condena
| And the same one that condemns me
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| Colgaré de alguna antena
| I will hang from some antenna
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| Quizá de su propio navío
| Perhaps from his own ship
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| Y si caigo ¿qué es la vida?
| And if I fall, what is life?
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| Por perdida ya la dí
| For loss I already gave it
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| Cuando el yugo del esclavo
| When the yoke of the slave
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| Como un bravo sacudí
| Like a bravo I shook
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| Son mi música mejor
| They are my best music
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| Aquilones el estrépito y temblor
| Aquilone the crash and tremor
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| De los cables sacudidos
| From the shaken wires
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| Del negro mar los bramidos
| From the black sea the bellows
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| Y el rugir de mis cañones
| And the roar of my cannons
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| Y del trueno al son violento
| And from thunder to violent sound
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| Y del viento al rebramar
| And of the wind when roaring
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| Yo me duermo sosegado
| I fall asleep peacefully
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| Arrullado por el mar
| lulled by the sea
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| Que es mi barco mi tesoro
| What is my boat my treasure
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| Que es mi dios mi libertad
| What is my god my freedom
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| Mi ley la fuerza y el viento
| My law the force and the wind
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| Mi única patria la mar | My only homeland the sea |