Paroles et traduction Daniel Toro - El Negro Sinforoso

El Negro Sinforoso

Negro, re negro era el negro
Le decian tronco quemao
Tenia barba ensortijada
Sinforoso el del poblao

Era tan pobre que siempre
Sus pies andaban descalzos
Ni ojotas pudo comprar
Porque nunca tuvo ni algo
Ni ojotas pudo comprar...
Porque nunca tuvo ni algo

Se machaba con convidos
Y comia de cuando en cuando
En un invierno muy crudo
El negro paso de largo

Lo encontraron en la calle
Como mirando el espacio
Parecia pedirle a Dios
Que lo reciba en sus brazos
Parecia pedirle a Dios...
Que lo reciba en sus brazos

Con tablas se hizo un cajon
Que de negro lo pintaron
Y asi ocupo como todos
Su tumba en el Campo Santo

En la vida no hay lugar
Para aquel que no tiene algo
Pero despues de su muerte
La tierra le da una mano
Pero despues de su muerte...
La tierra le da una mano

Negro, re negro era el negro
Le decian tronco quemao
Sinforoso, barba blanca
El viejito del poblao

Negro, re negro era el negro
Le decian tronco quemao
Sinforoso, barba blanca
El negrito del poblao

Old Afro-Latino Man Sinforoso

He's black, he's really black
He's called burnt tree trunk
He's got curly hair
Old Afro-Latino Man Sinforoso, from the town

He's so poor that he's always
Walking around barefoot
He couldn't buy sandals
Because he never had anythin'
He couldn't buy sandals...
Because he never had anythin'

He only joins in on feasts
And eats once in a blue moon
On a real harsh wintry day
Old Afro-Latino Man passed on

They found him in the street
As if looking in space
He seemed to be asking God
To welcome him with open arms
He seemed to be asking God...
To welcome him with open arms

They made a box out of planks
That they painted black
And now he finally has
His grave in the cemetery

There's no place in this life
For a man who has nothin'
But after death
The earth will lend a hand
But after death...
The earth will lend a hand

He's black, he's really black
He's called burnt tree trunk
Old Afro-Latino Man, with white hair
The old man from the town

He's black, he's really black
He's called burnt tree trunk
Old Afro-Latino Man, with white hair
The Afro-Latino boy from the town