La Negra [English translation]

Little black woman of my sorrows,

eyes like fluttering paper. *

Little black woman of my sorrows,

eyes like fluttering paper.

You tell them all yes,

but you don't tell them when.

That is what you told me;

that is why I live in suffering

When will you bring me my black woman?

I want to see her here

with her silk shawl

that I brought her from Tepic.

When will you bring me my black woman?

I want to see her here

with her silk shawl

that I brought her from Tepic.