Boda negra [English translation]

Black Wedding

Listen to the story I heard one day

From the town's old gravediggerThere was a lover that due to bad luckHad his sweet beloved taken by the ReaperEvery night went to the cemeteryTo visit his beauty's gravePeople murmured mysteriouslyHe's a dead man escaped from the graveOn a horrible night he crumbledThe marble on the abandoned tomb Dug the earth and took the rigid skeleton of his beloved in his armsAnd there in the sad roomshaded by the unsure light of a funeral candleHe sat the cold remains by his sideAnd celebrated his vows with the dead womanHe tied the naked bones with ribbonsThe bony cranium he crowned with flowers He covered the horrible mouth with kissesAnd smiling he discussed his love with her He took the bride to the thalamus mulchand laid beside her in loveand he remained for ever asleepWith the rigid skeleton in his arms