El Blues del Esclavo (Version Tango) Lyrics in English Mecano
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Blues del Esclavo (Version Tango) by Mecano from Spanish to English.
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El ser negrito
Being black
Es un color
It's a color
Lo de ser esclavo
About being a slave
No lo trago
I don't drink it
Me tiene frito
He's got me fried
Tanto trabajar de sol a sol
Both working from sun to sun
Las tierras del maldito señorito
The lands of the damn lord
Los compañeros
The companions
Piensan igual
They think the same way
O hay un espartaco
Or there's a spartacus
Que entre a saco
Let him come in
Y esto cambia
And this changes
O 'tos para gambia
O'cough for gambia
Desde kunta kinte a nuestros días
From kunta kinte to the present day
Pocas mejorías
Few improvements
A ver si ahora con la guerra de secesión
Let's see if now with the civil war
Se admite nuestro sindicato del algodón
Our cotton union is allowed
Que a saber
Let's know
Quiere obtener
He wants to get
Descanso dominical, un salario normal
Sunday break, a normal salary
Dos pagas, mes de vacaciones
Two pays, month's vacation
Y una pensión tras la jubilación
And a pension after retirement
Que se nos trate
Let us be treated
Con dignidad
With dignity
Como a semejantes
Like such
Emigrantes
Emigrants
Que se terminen
Let them be finished
Las pasadas
The past
Las palizas del patrono
The patron's beatings
Y el derecho de pernada
And the right to pernada
Y el que prefiera que se vuelva
And whoever prefers it to become
Al senegal
The Senegalese
Correr desnudos por la selva
Running naked through the jungle
Con la mujer y el chaval
With the woman and the kid
Ir natural
Go natural
'erguiendo' cuello y testuz
'upright' neck and testuz
Como hermana avestruz
As an ostrich sister
Para que no digan
So they don't say
Que somos unos zulus
That we're zulus
Ir cantando este blues
Go singing this blues
Y el que prefiera que se vuelva
And whoever prefers it to become
Al senegal
The Senegalese
Correr desnudos por la selva
Running naked through the jungle
Con la mujer y el chaval
With the woman and the kid
Ir natural
Go natural
'erguiendo' cuello y testuz
'upright' neck and testuz
Como hermana avestruz
As an ostrich sister
Para que no digan
So they don't say
Que somos unos zulus
That we're zulus
Hemos hecho este blues
We've made this blues
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