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Home Classes LYRICS Essays Links About	LYRICS Check back often for a harvest of tango lyrics translated by Jake Spatz NB: If the verses are out of alignment, try clicking "Refresh" in your web browser. Flor de Monserrat     The flower of Monserrat   Music: Juan Santini Lyrics: V.P. del Campo   Tr. Jake Spatz Recited 01 March 2006, Divino Lounge   Por sus ojos color cielo y sus dones de bondad, la llamaban Virgencita en el barrio Monserrat. Todos, todos la querían; y no hubo payador, que no cantara por ella, en el barrio del Tambor. Disputaban su cariño; todos querían su honor, pero la Virgen del barrio, soñaba con otro amor... For the sky-blue shade of her eyes and the many good deeds she did, they called her the Little Virgin of the quarter of Monserrat. Everyone, everyone loved her; and there wasn't a troubador who didn't break into song for her in the barrio of Tambor. They argued for her affections; all of them sought her hand, but the Virgin of the barrio had a different love in her dreams... Cuantas veces a sus rejas perfumadas de jazmín llegaron las serenatas de uno y otro confín... Marchitaron los jazmines; ya no se oye la canción en esas noches de luna junto al pie de su balcón... En todo el barrio se sabe, que la flor de Monserrat ha entregado sus amores a un Convento de Piedad... How many times the serenades from dueling sides of town reached the jasmine-scented bars of her little window... The jasmine flowers, they wilted; and now, these moonlit nights, down by the foot of her balcony not one note of a song can be heard... They know it all over the barrio, that the flower of Monserrat surrendered all her loves to a Convent of Holy Mercy... Table of Contents Questions? Comments? Email the Editor.
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