Qué he sacado con quererte [English translation]

What good has been the moon

We both look together?

What good have been the names

We carved on the wall?

The way calendar pages change

Is the way everything in this world changes

Ay, ay, ay, ay!

What good has been the lily

That we planted in the yard?

It was not a person planting,

It was two lovers.

Gardener, your plants

Have not changed with time.

Ay, ay, ay, ay!

What good has been the shade

Of the "aromo" as witness,

And the four foot-prints

By the side of the road?

What good has been loving you,

Little carnation in bloom?

Ay, ay, ay, ay!

Here is the very moon,

And the white lily in the yard,

The two names on the wall,

And the trail of your face on the road.

Yet you, ungrateful dove,

No longer shall coo in my nest.

Ay, ay, ay, ay!