Text & Translation
Al Amor
Spanish source:
Cristobal de Castillejo
Asido de mis cabellos
Y mil y ciento tras ellos
Y tras ellos mil y ciento
Y después...
De muchos millares, tres!
Y porque nadie lo sienta
Desbaratemos la cuenta
Y... contemos al revés.
To Love
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
your hands seizing my hair,
give me eleven hundred of them,
and eleven hundred more,
and then...
many more thousands, and three more!
And so that no one may know,
let's forget the tally
and...count backwards.
Translations by Jacqueline Cockburn and Richard Stokes published in the The Spanish Song Companion (Gollancz, 1992)
Al Amor
Spanish source:
Cristobal de Castillejo
To Love
English source:
Richard Stokes
Dame, Amor, besos sin cuento
Give me, Love, kisses without number,
Asido de mis cabellos
your hands seizing my hair,
Y mil y ciento tras ellos
give me eleven hundred of them,
Y tras ellos mil y ciento
and eleven hundred more,
Y después...
and then...
De muchos millares, tres!
many more thousands, and three more!
Y porque nadie lo sienta
And so that no one may know,
Desbaratemos la cuenta
let's forget the tally
Y... contemos al revés.
and...count backwards.
Composer
Fernando Obradors
Fernando (Ferran) Jaumandreu Obradors was a Spanish composer.
Poet
Cristobal de Castillejo
Cristóbal de Castillejo was a Spanish poet.