Dieguitos y Mafaldas [English translation]

Twenty years sewn by pieces

of urgences, slyness and routines,

twenty years reached in my arms,

with the gooseflesh and soul.

Twenty years of Charming Princes

who left before coming,

twenty tangos of Manzi 1in the crates,

twenty centuries without letters of dad.

From González Catán, in a bus,

to the Boca field, by Laguna,

is dreaming -"Today we win the match"-

the girl of the moon eyes.

The boys of La Doce 2more violent,

when they look at her, at La Bombonera 3,

and they ask, to the Virgin of the Winds,

to lift Paula's skirt.

Twenty years of poorly healed myths

drawing Dieguitos and Mafaldas,4

twenty lives I would delay

in counting the moles in her back.

I owe her a song and some kisses

that worth more than the Peru's gold,

her bones are nephews of my bones,

her tears are the nails of my cross.

From González Catán, in a bus,

to the Boca field, by Laguna,

is dreaming -"Today we win the match"-

the girl who cheats me with the moon.

Someday they will make a monument

the guys of the barra brava to my bostera5,

and a shrine to the Virgin of the Winds,

that lifts Paula's skirt.

From González Catán to Tirso de Molina,

what a hustle, from Spain to Argentina,

what a fuss, what a swaying,

what a bustle, what a fatigue, what a ruin.

And all because of who?

because of the love of a woman,

And for what anyway?

If in the end, she ran away with a guy,

who forbids my ex to see me in the Gran Rex6,

when I'm visiting,

otherwise Paulita starts crying,

when she hears her milonga,

otherwise Paulita starts dancing,

to the conga beat

and returns ill to González Catán

and not getting well

and getting crazier than the normal,

blessed skirt,

what a great flag for a song

and what a pair!

that year Boca was champion

of the Bombonera,

no Bostera can complain

even if she's right.

She paints t-shirts with the heart

and with the hips,

it's time for Palermo 7to have the ball,

La Doce freaks out,

it's time for the Gallego 8 to play this song...

for a Bostera

the year Boca was champion

at the Bombonera.

1. Homero Manzi2. Boca Juniors Barra brava3. Boca Juniors stadium4. A reference to the comic Mafalda5. Boca Juniors fan6. Argentinian theater7. Martin Palermo, argentinian football player8. Galician, a nickname for spaniards

• Artist:Joaquin Sabina
• Album:19 dias y 500 noches