Hijo de la Luna [English translation]

For those who don't know

A legend says

Of a gypsy woman

Who prayed to the moon until sunrise

Crying she begged

That when the day dawned

She would marry a gypsy

I will give you a dark skinned man

The full moon said from the sky

But in return I want

The firstborn son

You will have with him

Someone who will give up their son

So she will not to be alone

Surely don't really love him (the son)

Refrain:

Moon, you want to be a mother

But you can't find the love

That will make you a woman

Say, silver moon

What are you going to do

With a child made of flesh?

Son of the Moon

From a brown skinned father came a child

As white as the belly of an ermine

With grey eyes

Instead of olive

Albino child of the moon

Damn your mark

This is the son of a stranger

And I am having none of it

~Refrain~

The gypsy man thought he had been dishonored

He went to his wife with a knife in his hand

Whose is the son?

You have deceived me

And stabbed her to death

Then he went up on the mountain

With the child in his arms

And abandoned him there

~Refrain~

And in then nights when the moon is full

It is because the child is in a good mood

And if the child cries

The moon wanes

To make for him a cradle

And if the child cries

The moon wanes

To make for him a cradle