Paroles et traduction Ramón Ayala y Sus Bravos del Norte - Dos Monedas

Dos Monedas

Soy el mas desdichado del mundo
Y la culpa la tiene este vicio
Me dejo la mujer que tenia ahora pierdo tambien a mi hijo
El jamas supo lo que era un padre
Por que yo andaba siempre borracho
El pidiendo en la calle limosna
Para que yo siguera tomando

Una noche llovio hasta el invierno
Llego el pobre hasta donde yo estaba
Y me dijo perdon papasito
Ahora si que no me dieron nada
Tengo hambre y tambien mucho frio
Por favor hoy no me digas nada

Pero yo ciego de tanta ira
Le golpie hasta casi matarlo
Y le dije te vas a la calle
Ya no pienso seguirte aguantando
Ya no tienes ni casa ni padre si no traes
Para seguir tomando

Salio el pobre temblando de frio
Y llorando por lo que le dije
Mientras yo en la casa embrutecido
Sabradios que tanto lo maldije

El alcohol y el sueo me vencieron
Desperte casi ya amaneciendo
Al abrir la puerta de la casa
No crei lo que yo estaba viendo

Alli estaba mi hijo tirado
Habia muerto de hambre y de frio
En su mano le halle dos monedas
Que me traiba pa comprar mas vino
Y yo briago no oi que tocaba
Y asi el pobre murio en el olvido

Por borracho perdi yo a mi hijo
Y a mi esposa que tanto adoraba
Yo le quiero pedir a los padres
Que no le hagan un mal a sus hijos
Tal vez dios me mando este castigo
Por tirarme a la senda del vicio.

Two Coins

I am the most wretched man in the world
And it is this bad habit that is to blame
I have lost the woman I had and now I am also losing my son
He never knew what it was like to have a father
Because I was always drunk
He was begging for money in the street
So that I could go on drinking

One night it rained into winter
The poor thing came to where I was
And he said, "Forgive me, daddy,
This time they didn't give me anything.
I am hungry and very cold
Please, don't say anything to me today.

But I was blinded by anger
I beat him until he was almost dead
And I said, "Get out of here
I'm not going to put up with you anymore
You don't have a home or a father unless you bring
Something to keep me drinking."

The poor man left trembling with cold
And crying over what I had said to him
Meanwhile, at home, I was brutalized
God knows how much I cursed him

Alcohol and sleep overcame me
I woke up almost at daybreak
When I opened the door of the house
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

There was my son lying there
He had died of hunger and cold
In his hand, I found two coins
To buy me more wine
And I, drunk, didn't hear him knock
And so the poor boy died forgotten

Because I was a drunk, I lost my son
And my wife, whom I loved so much
I want to ask all parents
Not to do harm to their children
Perhaps God sent me this punishment
For setting out on the path of vice.