Yo te bendigo

The rooster hit the bull's eye,
a dog barking from afar answered
and the shanty town awoke
greeted the new day...
Far away a car passed by...
Like a sentinel that the watch was over,
the trembling light of a lantern
like a lament went out.

The guitar's strumming broke the silence
and through its strings the pain passed crying
and a voice that grief tears
sang in this way its cruel pain:
I bless you in spite of the harm you have done me
although other arms caress and embrace you,
for rancor has no place in the chest
that one day you filled with light and love!....

But if with pain
you come to weep
at the memory of the love
that I knew how to give you
think that my heart forgave you
my heart
and the soul that suffered for you
gives you its blessing.

The rooster was hitting the bull's-eye.
As a reproach to the loving blessing
the dog barked and from a lantern
the light died with the song...
But the I bless you
that from the bottom of his chest he pulled out
from the guitar to the sky went
and hid in a star...