EL ABROJITO

The small thistle (1926)

LYRICS by: Jesus Fernandez Blanco

MUSIC by: Luis Bernstein

TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz

Last updated on: 3/5/11

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Sing along with Alberto Moran with the orchestra of Osvaldo Pugliese

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Llevo, como abrojito, prendido dentro del corazón una pena porque te fuiste, ingrata, del nido y mi vida tan serena condenaste así al dolor. Nunca podré arrancar de mi pecho, ¡nunca! el abrojito punzante. Y ando, por todo el mal que me has hecho con el alma agonizante, sin fe, sin nido, ni amor…  No sé por qué te alejaste de mí si yo te adoré con creciente fervor. No sé por qué me engañabas así, sin demostrar tu desamor… Con tu querer, yo era un hombre feliz y nunca pensé que tu ardiente pasión era el puñal que me habría de abrir esta herida de mi corazón. Quiero que en tu vivir errabundo, sepas que solo y entristecido marcho por los senderos del mundo, con recuerdos que han prendido como abrojos de cardal… Pido que alguna vez tropecemos para saber si al fin has hallado todo lo que inconsciente has soñado. ¡Y quizá después podamos volver los dos a empezar!

I have, pinned like a small thistle, a sadness in my heart because you left, ungrateful, from the nest and my life, so serene, you condemned to feel pain. I can never tear off my chest, Never! the sharp small thistle. And I wander, because of all the wrong you’ve done to me with a dying soul, without faith, without a nest, no love …  I don’t know why you left me if I worshiped you with increasing fervor. I don’t know why you cheated that way, without showing your indifference … With your love, I was a happy man and I never thought that your burning passion was the dagger that would open this wound in my heart. I want, that in your wandering life, you know that alone and sad I trek through the paths of the world with memories that have taken root likes thorns of thistles… I ask that sometime we run into each other to see if you’ve finally found everything you’ve dreamed unconscious. And maybe afterwards we can start the two of us all over again!

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