Lamento borincano [English translation]

He sets off happily with his cargo

To the city, to the city

Carries in his thoughts

A whole world filled with happiness

Oh, of happiness

He plans to remedy the household situation

Which is all that he loves, yeah!

And happy, the peasant goes

Thinking, saying, singing like on the way:

"If I sell my load, my dear God

I'll buy a suit for my little old lady"

And his mare is happy also

When he knows that the song is

All a joyful hymn

And then the daylight comes unexpectedly

And they arrive to the city market

The entire morning goes by

Without anyone wanting

To buy his load, oh, to buy his load

Everything, everything is deserted

And the town is full of need

Oh, of need

The mourning is heard everywhere

In my unhappy Bonrinquen,1yeah

And sad, the peasant goes

Thinking, saying

Crying like this on the way:

"What will happen to Bonriquen, my dear God

What will happen to my children and my home?" Oh!

Bonriquen, the land of the Eden

The one that when sung by the great Gautier

He called out the pearl of the Seas

"Now that you lay dying from your sorrows

Let me sing to you also

Bonriquen of my love"

I'm a child of Bonriquen and no one will change that

I'm a child of Bonriquen and no one will change that

And on the day that I die, I want to rest in you

I love you, Puerto Rico, and no one will take that away, yeah!

1. A name given to Puerto Rico in the pre-colombian era