| Originale | Traduzione inglese da “Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin... |
| EL POBRE Y EL RICO | THE POOR AND THE RICH |
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| El pobre con su guitarra | Poor people with their guitars |
| Va cantando sus miserias, | Usually sing of their misery. |
| No hay en su canto alegría | In their songs, not too much joy; |
| Porque el hombre es cosa seria. | Hunger’s a serious thing. |
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| El rico es raza de cuervo | The rich are a race like the crow, |
| Y nunca canta sus penas, | No voice to sing of their sorrows. |
| Tal vez será que haga mal | Maybe it's too hard to sing, |
| Cantar de barriga llena. | Bellies stuffed full to the bursting. |
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| Hay arriba de un gran cerro | There is on top of the hill |
| Una virgen milagrera; | A mirac1e-working virgin; |
| Abajo un pueblo esperando | Below, the people awaiting |
| Pero el milagro no llega. | Miracles that never come! |
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| Con ésta mi coplíta, | With this, my little song, |
| Voy por cerros y llanuras, | I go through hills and through valleys; |
| Y si en la iglesia la cantan | If ever it’s sung in church, |
| Yo prometo hacerme cura. | I swear I'll become a priest! |
| Y si en la iglesia la cantan | If ever it’s sung in church, |
| Yo prometo hacerme cura. | I swear I'll become a priest! |
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| El pobre pasa la vida | The poor man spends his whole life |
| Trabajando, trabajando, | Working and working and working, |
| Pa que otro se vuelve rico, | So that some other gets rich |
| Descansando, descansando. | Shirking and shirking and shirking. |
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| El rico pasa la vida | The rich man spends his whole life |
| Descansando, descansando, | Loafing and loafing and loafing, |
| Pa que otro se vuelve pobre | So that some other gets poor, |
| Trabajando, trabajando. | Laboring, laboring, lab'ring. |
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| Si mentir es un pecado | If it's a sin to be lying, |
| Con rezos se va pagando, | Prayer is a way to be paying. |
| Será por eso que el cura | Maybe that’s why all the priests |
| Se pasa el dia rezando. | Seem to spend all day in praying! |
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| Con esta mi coplerita | With this, my little song, |
| Voy por cerros y llanuras, | I go through hills and through valleys, |
| Y si en la iglesia la cantan, | If ever it’s sung in church, |
| Yo prometo hacerme cura. | I swear I'll become a priest! |
| Y si en la iglesia la cantan, | If ever it’s sung in church, |
| Yo prometo hacerme cura. | I swear I'll become a priest! |
