Text & Translation
Polo
Spanish source:
Anon.
Guardo una pena en mi pecho
que a nadie se la diré.
¡Malhaya el amor, malhaya
y quien me lo dió a entender!
¡Ay!
Polo
English translation ©
Jacqueline Cockburn
I have an ache in my heart
of which I can tell no one.
A curse on love, and a curse
on the one who made me feel it!
Ay!
Translations by Jacqueline Cockburn and Richard Stokes published in the The Spanish Song Companion (Gollancz, 1992)
Polo
Spanish source:
Anon.
Polo
English source:
Jacqueline Cockburn
¡Ay!
Ay!
Guardo una pena en mi pecho
I have an ache in my heart
que a nadie se la diré.
of which I can tell no one.
¡Malhaya el amor, malhaya
A curse on love, and a curse
y quien me lo dió a entender!
on the one who made me feel it!
¡Ay!
Ay!
Composer
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla was a Spanish composer and pianist. Despite having composed only a modest number of pieces, he is highly regarded as one of Spain’s greatest musicians of the first half of the twentieth century. His image appeared on Spain's 1970…
