Текст и перевод песни Diana Navarro - Tango de la Menegilda (De la Zarzuela "La Gran Vía")

Tango de la Menegilda (De la Zarzuela "La Gran Vía")

¡Pobre chica, la que tiene que servir!
Más valiera que se llegase a morir.
Porque si una no sabe por las mañanas brujulear,
Aunque mil años vivas su paradero es el hospital.

Cuando yo vine aquí,
Lo primero que al pelo aprendí
Fue a fregar, a barrer,
A guisar, a planchar y a coser.

Pero viendo que esas cosas
No me hacían prosperar,
Consulté con mi conciencia y al punto me dijo:
"Aprende a sisar, aprende a sisar, aprende a sisar."

Salí tan mañosa que al cabo un año
Tenía seis trajes de seda y satén.
A nada que ustedes discurran un poco,
Ya se han figurao' y han adivinao'
De dónde saldría para ello el parné.

Yo iba sola por la mañana a comprar
Y me daban seis duros para pagar.
Y con sesenta reales gastaba treinta o poco más,
Y lo que me sobrara me lo guardaba un melitar.

Yo no sé cómo fue
Que un domingo después de comer,
Yo no sé qué pasó,
Qué mi ama a la calle me echó.

Pero al darme el señorito la cartilla y el parné
Fue y me dijo por lo bajo:
"Te espero en Eslava tomando café."
Tomando café.
Tomando café.

Después de este lance serví a un boticario,
Serví a una señora que estaba muy mal;
Me vine a esta casa y aquí estoy al pelo,
Pues sirvo a un abuelo que el pobre está lelo
Y yo soy el ama y punto final.
Y punto final.

Tango of Menegilda (From the Zarzuela "La Gran Vía")

Poor lass, having to serve!
Better if she went and died.
Because if one does not know how to work magic first thing in the morning,
Even if you live a thousand years, the hospital is your destination.

When I came here,
The first thing I learned off the bat
Was to scrub, to sweep,
To stew, to iron and to sew.

But seeing as those things
Were not making me prosper,
I spoke to my conscience and it immediately told me:
"Learn to pilfer, learn to pilfer, learn to pilfer."

I became so skilled that within a year
I had six outfits of silk and satin.
If you think about it a little,
You've already figured it out and guessed
Where I must have been getting the money for it.

I would go out alone in the morning to buy things
And they would give me six duros to pay.
And with sixty reales I would spend thirty or a little more,
And I would keep whatever extra I had left over for some soldier.

I don't know how it happened
That one Sunday after lunch,
I don't know what happened,
That my mistress threw me out into the street.

But when the young master gave me my passbook and money
He went and said to me quietly:
"I'll be waiting for you at Eslava, having a coffee."
Having a coffee.
Having a coffee.

After that incident I worked for an apothecary,
I worked for a lady who was very unwell;
I came to this house and here I am, living the high life,
Because I serve an old man who is a bit of a dodo
And I am the mistress, and that's the end of it.
And that's the end of it.