History Landmarked Lyrics in English Mecano
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Tonto el que no entienda
Foolish who does not understand
Cuenta una leyenda
Tell a legend
Que una hembra gitana
Than a gypsy female
Conjuró a la luna hasta el amanecer
He conjured the moon until dawn
Llorando pedía
Crying he asked
Al llegar el día
When the day arrives
Desposar un calé
Marry a calé
'Tendrás a tu hombre, piel morena'
'You will have your man, brown skin'
Desde el cielo habló la luna llena
From heaven spoke the full moon
'Pero a cambio quiero
'But in return I want
El hijo primero
The First Son
Que le engendres a él
Let thou beget him
Que quien su hijo inmola
Who immolates his son
Para no estar sola
Not to be alone
Poco le iba a querer'
Little was I going to love him'
Luna quieres ser madre
Luna wants to be a mother
Y no encuentras querer
And you don't find wanting
Que te haga mujer
Make you a woman
Dime, luna de plata
Tell me, silver moon
¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel?
What do you intend to do with a skinned child?
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Hijo de la luna
Son of the Moon
De padre canela nació un niño
From a cinnamon father a child was born
Blanco como el lomo de un armiño
White as the back of an ermine
Con los ojos grises en vez de aceituna
With gray eyes instead of olive
Niño albino de luna
Moon albino child
'Maldita su estampa, este hijo es de un payo
'Damn his stamp, this son is from a payo
Y yo no me lo cayo'
And I don't drop it.'
Luna quieres ser madre
Luna wants to be a mother
Y no encuentras querer que te haga mujer
And you don't find wanting me to make you a woman
Dime, luna de plata
Tell me, silver moon
¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel?
What do you intend to do with a skinned child?
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Hijo de la luna
Son of the Moon
Gitano al creerse deshonrado
Gypsy believing himself disgraced
Se fue a su mujer, cuchillo en mano
He went to his wife, knife in hand
'¿De quién es el hijo? Me has engañao' fijo'
'Whose son is it? You have deceived me' fixed'
Y de muerte la hirió
And he mortally wounded her
Luego se hizo al monte con el niño en brazos
Then he went to the mountain with the child in his arms.
Y allí le abandonó
And there he abandoned him.
Luna quieres ser madre
Luna wants to be a mother
Y no encuentras querer que te haga mujer
And you don't find wanting me to make you a woman
Dime, luna de plata
Tell me, silver moon
¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel?
What do you intend to do with a skinned child?
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Hijo de la luna
Son of the Moon
Y las noches que haya luna llena
And the nights that there is a full moon
Será porque el niño esté de buenas
It will be because the child is good
Y si el niño llora
And if the child cries
Menguará la luna para hacerle una cuna
The moon will wane to make it a cradle
Y si el niño llora
And if the child cries
Menguará la luna para hacerle una cuna
The moon will wane to make it a cradle
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