Paroles et traduction Carlos Gardel - Y Era Buena

Y Era Buena

Y era joven, bella y seductora
Su madrecita la cuidaba con primor
En el barrio todos la querían
Por su bondad y por su trato encantador

Hasta que un magnate forastero
En regio auto, una vez se le acercó
Le habló de joyas, de fiestas y de coches
Volvió dos o tres noches y al fin se la llevó

Su buena madre
Que la llora como muerta
Pues bien sabe que a su puerta
No podrá ya retornar

Nadie comprende
Su inmenso sufrimiento
No tienen sentimientos
No saben perdonar

Fue un rudo golpe
Para aquella madre buena
Y tan grande fue su pena
Que muy pronto sucumbió

Dios, justiciero
Con gran benevolencia
Demostrando su clemencia
Puso fin a su dolor

Y era buena, triste fue su sino
Se ha resignado, aunque muy grande es su dolor
Pues comprende que era su destino
Haber seguido aquel infame seductor

Pues el hombre que le prometiera
Miles de cosas que nunca jamás cumplió
Mostró muy pronto su corazón de hiena
Y a la muchacha buena, aquél la abandonó

Y Era Buena

And she was young, beautiful and seductive
Her little mother looked after her with great care
Everybody in the neighborhood loved her
For her kindness and her charming ways

Until a wealthy foreigner
Approached her in his majestic car
He spoke to her of jewelry, parties and cars
He came back two or three nights and finally took her away

Her good mother
Who cries for her as if she were dead
Because she knows well that to her door
She will never be able to return

Nobody understands
Her immense suffering
They have no feelings
They do not know how to forgive

It was a harsh blow
For that good mother
And so great was her pain
That very soon she succumbed

God, the just
With great benevolence
Demonstrating his clemency
Put an end to her pain

And she was good, sad was her fate
She has resigned herself, although her pain is very great
For she understands that it was her destiny
To have followed that infamous seducer

Because the man who promised her
Thousands of things he never fulfilled
Very soon showed his heart of a hyena
And that good girl, he abandoned her