Araca la cana · Osvaldo Fresedo · 1933

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¡Araca la cana! Ya estoy engriyao... Un par de ojos negros me han engayolao. Ojazos profundos, oscuros y bravos, tajantes y fieros hieren al mirar, con brillos de acero que van a matar. De miedo al mirarlos el cuor me ha fayao. ¡Araca la cana! ya estoy engriyao. Yo que anduve entreverao en mil y una ocasión y en todas he guapeao yo que al bardo me he jugao entero el corazón sin asco ni cuidao. Como un gil vengo a ensartarme en esta daga que va a matarme si es pa' creer que es cosa'e Dios que al guapo más capaz le faye el corazón.

English · machine translation

Get the gray hair! I'm already drunk... A pair of black eyes have made me gummed up. Deep, dark and fierce eyes, sharp and fierce, wounding to look into, with glints of steel that will kill. From fear when I look at them, my heart has fainted. Araca la cana! I'm already engriyao. I who have been in the middle of things on a thousand and one occasions and in all of them I've been a guapeao I who have gambled my whole heart my whole heart without disgust or care. Like a fool I've come to skewer myself in this dagger that's going to kill me if it's to believe that it's God's doing that the most capable handsome to faye his heart.