A Miña Burriña

I got married for a year, to know what life was like
The year is ending, single girl, how I wish

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My little donkey for spending the night in the river
Goes shivering, dying from the cold
Dying from the cold when it freezes
My little donkey gets into bed

I got married and I struggled, you never struggled with me
New clothes for a single woman, patched for a married one

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My little donkey for spending the night in the river
I go to the spring for water, to the mill to grind
And to your house to see you, and I never could see you
And I never could see you ailalelo ailalalo

Single girl, don't get married, enjoy the good life
For I know well of a married woman who cries in regret

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My little donkey for spending the night in the river

I wanted to get married, my mother tells me it's too soon
She, being married, doesn't know the desires I have

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My little donkey for spending the night in the river