Con divisa verde y oro [English translation]

He came in a moonlight ray,

of a January moon;

he was a boy from Osuna

who wanted to be a bullfighter.

"Rancher from Salamanca,

I name you as godmother

that the money and the name,

if I ever get them,

I put the sky as witness

that I'll marry you"

An ole in the test

for his braveness

and a spirit in my veins

that used to say:

Rancher with green and gold ribbons

be careful,

don't let love suprise you like a bull

disobedient.

For your fortune and reputation

they keep devotion

and a carnation in your dress

would call the attention.

It is guessed in your eyes

the madness of an "I love you"

and you'll be like a holm oak,

rancher from Salamanca

with green and gold ribbons.

Now he's a bullfighter of fame,

money and reputation;

now his passion is a flame

that circles me night and day.

Three times he asked me

to take him as husband,

three times I said no!

And the cause is in Osuna,

olive skinned woman

that for me he forgot.

And in my nights

of deadly sorrows,

knives are the songs

of my foremen:

Rancher with green and gold ribbons

my owner,

how much I'd give to save you from that bull

of agony.

With your fortune and reputation

you have enough to think about

and even the dull in your dress

you must take off.

Because you can't see this way

that you buried an "I love you"

under the trunk of a holm oak,

rancher from Salamanca

with green and gold ribbons.