Marizápalos [English translation]

Marizápalos went out one afternoon

to the green grove that leads to Madrid

because then the land she walked in

was so much better than Flanders to see

was so much better than Flanders to see 1

Marizápalos was a young girl,

and in love with Pedro Martín,

the niece of a respected priest,

the jewel of the town, the April flower

the jewel of the town, the April flower

Pedro said, kissing the snow

that already looked like it was melting for him:

"In your hands, two pennies are worth more

than all the silver coins in Valladolid

than all the silver coins in Valladolid"

The two of them ate at the table

that Marieta made out of her petticoat

and Perico, looking at it lustfully,

ate it up with his own parsley sauce

ate it up with his own parsley sauce

The noise made in the leaves

by a certain old horse’s shoes

made the Adonis run away

fearing the teeth of some wild boar

fearing the teeth of some wild boar

It was the priest arriving at the grove

and if he had shown up a little earlier,

seeing how a priest knows grammar,

he would have caught them using bad Latin

he would have caught them using bad Latin

1. Perhaps a reference to the Eighty Years' War. Pedro could have been a soldiers who was fighting in Flanders and is happy to be back in Spain.

• Artist:L'Arpeggiata
• Album:Los impossibles (2006)