Текст и перевод песни Los Llaneros de Guamuchil - Elenita

Elenita

Escuchen señores, la triste canción
Compuesta por la sirena
Cubierta de flores cubierta de azares
La coronación de Elena.

Elena se fué para el extranjero
En un buque de vapor
Iba llorando triste suspirando
Porque dejaba su amor.

Estaba una niña sentada en su silla
Recostada en la ventana
Mirando la linea que lleva a Elenita
Que la llevan coronada.

Eligio Cabrera luego que lo supo
Hechó mano a su velero
Alcanzar el barco donde iba Elenita
Y a matar al marinero.

El marinero luego que lo vió
Mucho miedo le agarró
El muy asesino de Eligio Cabrera
5 balazos le dio.

Le dieron pa' puerto le dieron a bordo
Sentados en su velero
A enterrar el muerto que Eligio Cabrera
Ha matado al marinero.

Elenita

Dearest lady, I present to you this doleful lament
Composed by a siren
Cloaked in flowers, bedecked in orange blossoms
For the crowning of Elena.

Elena has departed for a foreign land
Aboard a steamship
She weeps and sighs in sorrow
As she bids farewell to her love.

A young maiden sits upon a chair
Leaning against the window
Watching the horizon that carries Elena away
As she is crowned in glory.

Eligio Cabrera, learning of this, seized his clipper ship
And set sail
To overtake the vessel carrying Elena
And slay the sailor.

The sailor, upon seeing him
Was filled with terror
The murderous Eligio Cabrera
Shot him five times.

They sailed into port, anchoring their ship
And sat upon its deck
To bury the man that Eligio Cabrera
Had slain with his own hand.