Imperio Argentina

Los piconeros → English translation

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Original lyrics

Los piconeros

Ya se ocultó la luna,

Luna lunera

Ya ha abierto su ventana

La piconera,

La piconera, mare

Y el piconero

Va a la sierra cantando

Con el lucero.

Estribillo:

Ya viene el día,

Ya viene, mare. (bis)

Alumbrando sus claras

Los olivares. (bis)

Ay, que me diga que sí,

Ay, que me diga que no.

Como no lo ha querio ninguna

Lo quiero yo.

Mi piconero, como el picón,

Por tu culpa, culpita, yo tengo

Negro, negrito, mi corazón. (bis)

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Faja de sea lleva

Mi piconero

Y un marsellés bordao

De terciopelo,

De terciopelo, mare

Y en el sombrero

Una cinta que dice:

"Por ti me muero".

{Estribillo}

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Mi piconero, como el picón,

Por tu culpa, culpita, yo tengo

Negro, negrito, mi corazón. (bis)

Translation

The coalmakers*

The moon has hidden away

the moonlit moon **

The coalmaker girl has thrown open her window,

the coalmaker girl, mama,

and the coalmaker man

goes up the ridge singing

with the morning star. ***

Chorus

Day is coming

day is coming, mama (bis)

its radiant light lighting up

the olive tree patches.

Oh, if he told me "yes"

Oh, if he told me "no"

like no one´s ever loved him

I love him.

Mi coalmaker man, black as "picón" coal

because of you, of wee little you, I have

blackity black, my heart (bis)

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A silk sash he wears,

my coalmaker man,

and a rough jacket ****

embroidered in velvet.

In velvet, mama,

and on his hat

a ribbon that reads

"I´m dying for you"

(Chorus)

Mi coalmaker man, black as "picón" coal

because of you, of wee little you, I have

blackity black, my heart (bis)

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Added in reply to request by

Valeriu Raut

Author's comments:

* "Piconero" is a generic name given to people who manufactured "picón", a kind of coal commonly used on braziers throughout southern Spain (especially in the Cordoba region)

** This expression makes no strict grammatical sense, since it is a direct quotation from a famous spanish nursery rhyme, which favours rhyme and musicality over correction. Literally, it would mean "moony moon". The complete lyrics, if anyone is curious, go: "Sol solecito,caliéntame un poquito/por hoy, por mañana, por toda la semana/luna lunera, cascabelera/cinco pollitos y una ternera/caracol, caracol, a la una sale el sol/sale Pinocho tocando el tambor/con una cuchara y un tenedor"

*** Technically speaking, "lucero" can be any kind of celestial body that emits light, but it most commonly refers to "El lucero del alba", or the Morning Star (Planet Venus)

**** A "marsellés" is a jacket usually made of rough cloth, with embroidery on linen or other finer fabrics.

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Comments

Valeriu Raut

Thu, 22/11/2012 - 19:25

Muchas gracias, primeramente para las valiosas explicaciones debajo, muy interesantes.
Una sugerencia: trata que la traducción mantenga el ritmo de la canción.
La línea: Ya ha abierto su ventana
no parece a su correspondiente: The coalmaker girl has thrown open her window