Lyrics of Cucurrucucu Paloma - Willie Colón, Celia Cruz

Cucurrucucu Paloma (original)

Dicen que por las noches
Nomas se le iba en puro llorar
Dicen que no comia
Nomas se le iba en puro tomar
Juran que el mismo cielo
Se estremecia al oir su llanto;
Como sufrio por ella
Que hasta en su muerte la fue llamando
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,… cantaba
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,… gemia
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,… cantaba
De pasion mortal… moria
Que una paloma triste
Muy de manana le va a cantar
A la casita sola, Con sus puertitas de par en par
Juran que esa paloma
No es otra cosa mas que su alma
Que todavia la espera
A que regrese la desdichada
Cucurrucucu… paloma
Cucurrucucu… no llores
Las piedras jamas, paloma
!Que van a saber de amores!
Cucurrucucu… cucurrucucu…
Cucurrucucu… paloma, ya no llores

(translation)

They say that at night
He was just going to cry
They say he didn't eat
He was just going to drink
They swear that heaven itself
He shuddered to hear her cry for him;
how he suffered for her
That even in her death she was calling her
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,… I sang
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,… she moaned
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,… I sang
Of deadly passion... he died
what a sad dove
Very early in the morning she is going to sing to him
To the little house alone, with its little doors wide open
They swear that pigeon
It is nothing more than his soul
that she still waits for her
For the unfortunate to return
Cucurrucucu dove
Cucurrucucu… don't cry
The never stones, dove
What are they going to know about loves!
Cucurrucucu… cucurrucucu…
Cucurrucucu… dove, don't cry anymore