They say that at night
he did nothing but cry,
they say he didn't eat
he did nothing but drink.
They swear that the very sky (heavens) 1.
trembled on hearing his weeping,
how he suffered for her,
that even in his death, he went calling her
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he sung,
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he groaned.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he sung,
of a mortal passion he died.
That, very early in the morning
a sad 'paloma' goes to sing to him 2.
to the empty small house
with its little doors open wide;
they swear that that 'paloma'
is nothing other than his soul,
that he is still waiting
for the wretched to return.
Coo coo ru coo coo paloma, coo coo roo coo coo, don't cry,
the stones never, ever, paloma,
what can they know of love?
Coo coo roo coo coo, coo coo roo coo coo,
Coo coo roo coo coo, coo coo roo coo coo
coo coo roo coo coo, paloma, don't cry no more.