Lyrics and translation Alejandra Guzmán - Cucurrucucú Paloma

Cucurrucucú Paloma

Dicen que no comía
No más se le iba en puro llorar
Dicen que no dormía
No más se le iba en puro tomar
Cuentan que el mismo cielo
Se estremecía al oír su llanto
Cómo lloró por ella
Y hasta en su muerte la fue llamando

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay lloraba
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay reía
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay canataba
De pasión mortal, moría

Que una paloma triste
Muy de mañana le iba a cantar
A su casita sola
Con sus puertitas de par en par
Cuentan que esa paloma
No es otra cosa más que su alma
Que todavía la espera
A que regrese la desdichada

Cucurrucucú paloma, cucurrucucú no llores
Las piedras jamás, paloma
¿Qué van a saber de amores?

Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú
Cucurrucucú, Paloma!
Ya no le llores
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Cucurrucucú Paloma

They say she didn't eat,
She just spent her time crying.
They say she didn't sleep,
She just spent her time drinking.
It's said that Heaven itself
Shook at the sound of her weeping.
How she cried for her
And even in death she called out her name.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh she wept,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh she laughed,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh she sang,
She died of a fatal passion.

That a sad dove
Would come to her and sing every morning
At her lonely house
With its doors wide open.
They say that this dove
Is nothing more than her soul,
Still waiting for her
To return, the poor soul.

Coo-coo-coo dove, coo-coo-coo don't cry
Stones, my dove
What could they possibly know about love?

Coo-coo-coo, coo-coo-coo
Coo-coo-coo, Dove!
Don't cry over her anymore
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