Petra Narcisa

February 10th I remember the cool and promising afternoon
The cool and promising afternoon
And on the back of a lagoon he came whistling without haste
Breaking the buds of mugwort with the stirrups

At about 6 or so, I arrived at the stable
I arrived at the stable
There was a very famous dance in the Cocuiza ranch
From a corner of the room came a joropo in the breeze

I got off at Lagunazo and got the quote
And in a single glance I passed a slight search
I passed a light search
The jar in a corner, the lamp on the shelf

A candle in the yard and a boy who stirs it
Smell of meat, sorocha, firewood and brushwood
The flame dances happily and the smoke goes to heaven
And the humisa goes to heaven

I was madly in love with Petra Narcisa
The flower of that neighborhood and was the daughter of the guise

Brunette with striped eyes and straight black hair
A face of beautiful lines that looks at me and blushes

With a carnation on the lips and a white lily in the laughter
Shy young and beautiful but very elusive
One of those that peel off your sleeve

At the stroke of midnight when the dancing gets fierce
When the dance gets fierce
My feet were dancing, my mind alone improvising
Love came out of my soul with a precise verse

And if it hadn't been like this my chest would have been charred
My chest is charred
I told her Petra, for you my heart is agonizing
The charm you have thrills me and hypnotizes me

It shakes me against the ground, drags me and makes me useless
When I walk through the savannah my memory marks it
My memory is the motto
That he throws into the clouds with a faint smile

That makes my soul tremble and seeing you paralyzes me
Wanting to drink your breath that lifts me up and invigorates me
And you know that love comes quietly and does not warn
He arrives quietly and does not warn

I even asked Saint Anthony himself the day before yesterday at mass
May you be my companion with unhealthy devotion
When the sound ended, the mestiza approached me
With a totuma full of roasted meat and choriza

Of roast beef and chorizo
And when I perceived his breathing I felt like a leather
That just telling it still torments me
He told me to come to an agreement with the black Maria Luisa

Talk to the black girl and after a while we'll leave the idea concise
With the lebrunos of the day under a coppery dawn
I mounted it in my lagoon and got lost in a dust storm
And so I took her away on Ash Wednesday