Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Río by Miguel Ríos from Spanish to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
buenas noches bienvenidos una vez más a
good evening welcome once again to
que noche la de aquel año estamos en
what a night that year we are in
1968 un año bastante fuerte para la
1968 quite a strong year for the
historia del mundo y un año
world history and a year
particularmente importante para la
particularly important for the
historia musical de este país sobre todo
musical history of this country above all
para la historia particular de nuestra
for the particular history of our
triunfadora del año pasado y era tan
winner last year and was so
importante la música de los brincos en
the music of the jumps is important in
esta época que yo medio obligado a
this time that I half forced to
pedirle a uno de sus componentes que me
ask one of its components to
hicieran una canción para abandonar la
make a song to leave the
penuria en la que me encontraba la falta
penury in which I found myself lacking
de éxito era tan total que solamente
of success was so total that only
bastó un city to city to city para
a city to city to city was enough for
devolverme la confianza de todos ustedes
give me back the trust of all of you
y así les voy a cantar yo esta bellísima
and that's how I'm going to sing to you, I'm beautiful
canción que empieza así
song that starts like this
yo recuerdo aquel día
I remember that day
bien nos fuimos a bañar
well we went to bathe
a que éramos tan frías
because we were so cold
en acción de los dos
in action of both
yo sé java humanos
i know java human
me mirabas una vez
you looked at me once
nuestros cuerpos mojados
our wet bodies
bajo los rayos del sol
under the rays of the sun
no hay nada ha cambiado
nothing has changed
siguen igual
They remain the same
con sus aguas tan claras
with its clear waters
se pierden en el mar
they are lost in the sea
porque nació
because he was born
esto también me quería
this also wanted me
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