Coplas orientales por cifra y milonga

(Cifra and milonga. Compilation: Alfredo Zitarrosa and Ildefonso Pereda Valdés)

To a good woman
there is no money to pay her,
but when she turns bad,
there is no stick to hit her with.

I climbed on top of a pine tree
to see if I could spot you,
and since the pine was tender,
seeing me cry, it cried.

When a poor man falls in love
and a rich man gets in the way,
there the poor guy stays
scratching his head.

If you despise me for being poor,
I grant you reason:
Poor gaucho and green firewood
go to a corner.

A woman is like the devil,
related to the scorpion;
when they see the poor gaucho,
they raise their tails and leave.

Sorrow and what is not sorrow,
everything is sorrow to me;
yesterday I suffered to see you,
today I suffer because I saw you.