Glebe Music Festival

Paséabase el rey moro
por la ciudad de Granada,
cartas le fueron venidas
como Alhama era tomada.
Ay de mi Alhama!

Las cartas echó al fuego,
al mensajero matara;
por el Zacatin arriba
subido se habia al Alhambra.
Ay de mi Alhama!

Como en el Alhambra estuvo
al mismo punto mandaba
que se toquen sus trompetas,
sus añafiles de plata.
Ay de mi Alhama!

The King of the Moors went walking
through the city of Granada
letters had been brought to him
about the fall of Alhama.
Alack for my Alhama!

He threw the letters on the fire
and killed the messenger,
went up the Zacatin
and climbed to the Alhambra.
Alack for my Alhama!

As soon as he reached the Alhambra
at once he gave the command
for his trumpets to be blown
and his silver bugles to sound.
Alack for my Alhama!

Ysabel,Ysabel, perdiste la tu faxa
el a pordo va na dando por el agua
Ysabel a tangarrida

Isabel Isabet, you have lost your girdle; There it goesfloating down the stream.
Isabel, Oh so fetching.

Dindirin,dindirin,dindirindana,Dindirindin,
Ju me leve un bel maitin,
Matineta per la prata;
Encontr6 ie ruysenor
Que cantava so la rama,
Dindridin.
Ruysenor, ie ruyseftor,

Facteme aquesta embaxata,
Dindirindin
Y digaolo a mon ami,
Que ju ja so maritata,
Dindirindin.

Dindirin,dindirin,dindirindana,Dindirindin,
I got up one fine morning,
Early in the morning through the meadow;
I met a nightingale
Singing on a branch.
Dindirindin

Nightingale, O nightingale

Carry this message for me,
Dindirindin
Go and tell my friend
That I am already married.
Dindirindin

Sy amor pone las escalas
Al muro del corazon,
No ay ninguna defensión.
Si amor quiere dar conbate
Con su poder y firmesa.
No ay fuenp ni fortalesa
Que no tome o desbarate;
O que no yera o no mate
Al que no se da a prisión:
No ay ninguna defensión.

If love places its ladder
Against the wall of the heart
There is no defence.
If love seeks to do battle
With its full strength and determination
There is no force or fortress
Which can avoid being taken or destroyed;
And there is no-one, man or woman,
'who does not accept being taken captive.
There is no defence.

Por la puente Juana
que no por el agua
Agora quel tiempo
con las manos francas
de Jazmin y Rosa
compone tu cara

Onto the bridge, Juana
And not on the water.
What wonderful weather!
With the hands of sweet
Jasmine and Rose
Sooth your face.

Triste Espana sin ventura,
Todos te deven llorar;
Despoblada d'alegria,
Para munca en ti tomar!

Sad Spain, bereft of luck,
All must weep for you.
You are no longer full of a joy
Such as can never return

VESAME Y ABRAÇAME

(A MARRIAGE SONG)

Vesame y abraçame marido mio,
y daros he'n la manana camisó limpio
Yo nunca vi hombre bivo estar tan muerto,
ni hazer el adormido estando despierto.

Kiss me, take me in your arms, my husband,
And in the morning they will give me a clean nightshirt.
I never saw a living man so much like a dead one
Or act like a steeping one, when he is awake!