Jilguero Flores [English translation]

Because I go around singing

they call me Goldfinch Flores,

dovey1

The sweetness of women is

more perilous than the devil,

in love. In love

if you have an owner2 you have to look after yourself.

You told me that I'm ugly

and that I'm not for you,

dovey,

that many are milling around you

and many must love you,

dovey, dovey,

don't be a fool, you don't have to want that.

Courting many lovers

and playing games with love, dovey,

is a very nasty thing,

ask anyone you like,

it usually brings sorrow, brings sorrow,

don't be a fool, you don't have to want that,

if you carry on rummaging around so much

in the old trunk of a tree, dovey,

you can stick your hand into

a wasps nest, and that can sting

Never play games with love.

1. a term of afection, meaning "my deal little dove" or something similar2. master?