Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Plañidera by Leonardo Favio from Spanish to English.
Hoy de nuevo la casa se viste de negro
Today the house dresses in black
Las cortinas se cierran en signo de duelo
The curtains close in signs of grieving
Una cruz de madera toda mal tallada
A wooden cross all bad carved
Que ayer guardara vino, hoy es a Dios postrera
That yesterday will keep wine, today is the last last
Mas amargo que ayer
More bitter than yesterday
Y el violìn
And the violence
En el otro salón
In the other hall
La plañidera
The Plañidera
La plañidera
The Plañidera
Que sus lágrimas
Than his tears
La plañidera
The Plañidera
La plañidera
The Plañidera
No conoció
He did not know
Se ira cuando amanezca
It will leave when it dawns
Como llego, en silencio
How I arrive, in silence
Le pagan, y llora
They pay him, and he cries
Eso dirán los deudos
That will say the relatives
No saben que el que yace
They don't know that the one who lies
Vencido por la muerte
Defeated by death
Fue el amante secreto
It was the secret lover
De la hermosa que llora
Of the beautiful one who cries
Más amargo que ayer
More bitter than yesterday
Y el violín
And the violin
En el otro salón
In the other hall
La plañidera
The Plañidera
La plañidera
The Plañidera
Que sus lágrimas
Than his tears
La plañidera
The Plañidera
La plañidera
The Plañidera
Llora a aquel que no conoció
Cry the one who did not know
La plañidera
The Plañidera
La plañidera
The Plañidera
Que sus lágrimas vendió
That his tears sold
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