Hijo de la Luna [English translation]

Fool is he who doesn’t understand

Tells a legend

That a female gypsy

Conjured the moon until dawn

Crying she would ask

That the day would come

For she to marry a gypsy

You’ll have your man, ebony skin

From the sky the full moon talked to her

But in return I want

The first-born child

You breed from him

Cause someone who sacrifices her son

In order to not being alone

Would only barely love him

[Chorus]

Moon, you want to be mother

And you can’t find love

That makes you woman

Tell me, silver moon

What are you going to do

With a child of skin?

Son of the moon

From a cinnamon father was born a child

As white as the back of an ermine

With grey eyes

Instead of olive

Albino child of the moon

Curse his seal

This is a foreigner’s child

And I won’t keep the truth

[Chorus]

Gypsy man thinking he’s been dishonored

Attacked her woman, knife in hand

“Whose son is this?

You’ve cheated on me”

And she wounded her deadly

Then he walked up the mount

With the child between his arms

And forsook him there

[Chorus]

And in those nights the moon is full

It will be because the child is in a good mood

And if the child cries

The moon shall wax

To serve as a cradle

And if the child cries

The moon shall wax

To serve as a cradle...

(Translation by Antonio Navarrete - [email protected])

• Artist:Mecano
• Album:Entre el cielo y el suelo (1986)