La cançó del soldadet [English translation]

Listen to the song of the little soldier,

who through an œil de bœuf

sees some swifts flying!

He is not an expert on that, the little soldier,

but the fact that swifts are flying

must mean that the land is close.

It is so close that the captain comes down

he tries not to look nervous

while he finishes the commands:

"Concentrate, little soldiers, be careful,

and cling to your life

tooth and nail"

In the deck, men pray

In the deck, men pray

He says amen, little convinced, the little soldier

and he caresses his rifle,

trying not to think in anything.

From the bow the hills look bigger and bigger

"little soldier, courage, courage,

the fate of the world depends on people like you"

But "what if an enemies' bullet crosses the wind

and goes through my brain"

thinks the little soldier,

"waves will drag me

and one thousand coloured fishes

will fight to devour my flesh".

Then he thinks "I'll hide;

when nobody can see me I'll hide"

But they're always looking, and the ship is slowing down,

the doors have been opened

and in one second, the sea gets inundated

with soldiers shooting to the horizon

with a little soldier in the middle of them,

shooting while insulting the enemy.

And between bomb and bomb everything goes pretty good

until one of them falls next to him

At first he thinks "How lucky! it was so close...",

but then he feels a strange pain in his back

and when he touches it his whole arm gets stained with blood.

He turns his head one way and the other

He sits in the sand and rests.

And while waiting the fucking doctor, the little soldier

reassures himself repeating

what he will do, where he will go, if he survives:

"I'll go to my mother's place nicely dressed

and first of all, I'll have to ask her

to forgive me to treat her always that way;

I'll go to Margarida to have a son

so that when I see him I realise

that I love him more than I love myself"