Paroles et traduction Caterina Valente - Cucurrucucú paloma

Cucurrucucú paloma

Dicen que por las noches
Nomás se le iba en puro llorar
Dicen que no comia
Nomás se le iba en puro tomar

Juran que el mismo cielo
Se estremecia al cir su llanto
Cómo sufrío por ella
Que hasta en su muerte
La fué llamando

Cu-cu-rru-cu-cú cantaba
Cu-cu-rru-cu-cú gemia
Cu-cu-rru-cu-cú cantaba
De pasión mortal moria

Que una paloma triste
Muy de mañana le va a cantar
A la casita sola
Con sus puertitas par en par

Juran que esa paloma
No es otra cosa más que su alma
Que todavia la espera
A que regrese la desdichada

Cu-cu-rru-cu-cú paloma
Cu-cu-rru-cu-cú no llores
Cu-cu-rru-cu-cú paloma.

The dove sings like this

They say that at night she did nothing but
Cry until her tears flowed
They say she would not eat
All she did was drink

They swear that the sky itself
Was shaken by her weeping
She suffered so greatly for her love
That even in death
She called out his name

Coo-coo-coo she would sing
Coo-coo-coo she would moan
Coo-coo-coo she would sing
She was dying of love

One gloomy morning a sad dove
Flies to her house to sing her a song
In her lonely house
With its wide open doors

They swear that this dove
Is none other than her soul
Who waits for her still
Until the unfortunate woman returns

Coo-coo-coo my dove
Coo-coo-coo do not cry
Coo-coo-coo my dove