MALAGUENA
(Music and Spanish Lyrics : Ernesto Lecuona)
(Original Spanish)


Malaguena de ojos negros
Malaguena de mis suenos.
Me estoy muriendo de pena
Por tu sole tu querer.

Malaguena rebonita te queiro besar.

Malaguena de ojos negros
Malaguena de mis suenos.
Me estoy muriendo de pena
Por tu sole tu querer.

Malaguena rebonita te queiro besar.


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(English Lyrics : Marian Banks)


"Fly away!" Said my carefree heart
"To the pace where daydreams start".
"Fly away!" Said my heart to me.
"To the shore of the moonlit sea"
"T'is the gypsy code to be fancy-free;
When I see a road,
Oh that's the road for me!

My Malaguena, your eyes shamed the purple sky.
You were as fair as I dreamed you would be;
I loved and left you for I never could deny
The gypsy strain in me.
Lightly as a song, going where I please;
Journeying along with every vagrant breeze.
Up a hill, down a stream
I follow in a dream.

Long have I travelled my love
Since the night we met,
Seeking in wandering
A way to forget.
But it's no matter by what path I may depart
I can't escape from my Malaguena.