Hijo de la luna

[00:09.65] Tonto el que no entienda (For those who don't know)

[00:13.64] Cuenta una leyenda (A legend says)

[00:17.64] Que una hembra gitana (Of a gypsy woman)

[00:19.49] Conjuró a la luna hasta el amanecer (Who prayed to the moon until sunrise)

[00:26.40] Llorando pedía (Crying she begged)

[00:27.73] Al llegar el día (That when the day dawned)

[00:29.59] Desposar un calé (She would marry a gypsy)

[00:39.95] "Tendrás a tu hombre, piel morena" ("I will give you a dark skinned man")

[00:43.93] Desde el cielo habló la luna llena (The full moon said from the sky)

[00:47.93] "Pero a cambio quiero ("But in return I want)

[00:50.06] El hijo primero (The firstborn son)

[00:51.93] Que le engendres a él." (You will have with him")

[00:56.45] Que quien su hijo inmola (Someone who will give up their son)

[00:58.05] Para no estar sola (So she won't be alone)

[00:59.64] Poco le iba a querer (Surely don't really love him {the son})

[01:06.28] Luna quieres ser madre (Moon you want to be a mother)

[01:10.30] Y no encuentras querer (But you can't find the love)

[01:12.69] Que te haga mujer (That will make you a woman)

[01:14.56] Dime, luna de plata (Say, silver moon)

[01:18.30] ¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel? (What are you going to do, with a child made of flesh?)

[01:22.54] Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah

[01:30.24] Hijo de la luna (Son Of The Moon)

[01:40.22] De padre canela nació un niño (From a browned skinned father came a child)

[01:44.47] Blanco como el lomo de un armiño (As white as the back of an ermine)

[01:48.18] Con los ojos grises en vez de aceituna (With grey eyes instead of olives)

[01:52.16] Niño albino de luna (Albino child of the moon)

[01:56.68] "Maldita su estampa, este hijo es de un payo ("Damn your mark, this is the son of a stranger)

[02:00.14] Y yo no me lo cayo" (And I'm having none of it")

[02:06.78] Luna quieres ser madre (Moon you want to be a mother)

[02:10.77] Y no encuentras querer (But you can't find the love)

[02:12.80] Que te haga mujer (That will make you a woman)

[02:14.92] Dime, luna de plata (Say, silver moon)

[02:18.65] ¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel? (What are you going to do, with a child made of flesh?)

[02:22.89] Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah

[02:30.33] Hijo de la luna (Son Of The Moon)

[02:40.69] Gitano al creerse deshonrado (The gypsy man thought he had been dishonored)

[02:44.67] Se fue a su mujer, cuchillo en mano (He went to his wife with a knife in his hand)

[02:48.67] "¿De quién es el hijo? ("Whose is the son?)

[02:50.53] Me has engañao' fijo" (You have deceived me")

[02:52.39] Y de muerte la hirió (And stabbed her to death)

[02:56.91] Luego se hizo al monte (Then he went up on the mountain)

[02:58.79] con el niño en brazos (With the child in his arms)

[03:00.64] Y allí le abandonó (And abandoned him there)

[03:06.78] Luna quieres ser madre (Moon you want to be a mother)

[03:11.05] Y no encuentras querer (But you can't find the love)

[03:12.91] Que te haga mujer (That will make you a woman)

[03:15.30] Dime, luna de plata (Say, silver moon)

[03:19.02] ¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel? (What are you going to do, with a child made of flesh?)

[03:23.27] Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah

[03:30.97] Hijo de la luna (Son Of The Moon)

[03:40.81] Y las noches que haya luna llena (And in the nights when the moon is full)

[03:44.78] Será porque el niño esté de buenas (It is because the child is in a good mood)

[03:48.77] Y si el niño llora (And if the child cries)

[03:50.63] Menguará la luna para hacerle una cuna (The moon wanes to make him a cradle)

[03:57.00] Y si el niño llora (And if the child cries)

[03:58.86] Menguará la luna para hacerle una cuna (The moon wanes to make him a cradle)