Adelita - Nat King Cole, Nelson Riddle Orchestra

En lo alto de una abrupta serranía

Acampado se encontraba un regimiento

Y una moza que valiente lo seguía

Locamente enamorada del sargento

Popular entre la tropa era Adelita

La mujer que el sargento idolatraba

Que además de ser valiente era bonita

Que hasta el mismo coronel la respetaba

Y se oía que decía

Aquel que tanto la quería…

Si Adelita se fuera con otro

La seguiría por tierra y por mar

Si por mar en un buque de guerra

Si por tierra en un tren militar

Si Adelita quisiera ser mi esposa

Y si Adelita ya fuera mi mujer

Le compraría un vestido de seda

Para llevarla a bailar al cuartel

Y después que terminó la cruel batalla

Y la tropa regresó a su campamento

Por la vez de una mujer que sollozaba

La plegaria se oyó en el campamento

Y al oírla el sargento temeroso

De perder para siempre su adorada

Escondiendo su dolor bajo el reboso

A su amada le cantó de esta manera…

Y se oía que decía

Aquel que tanto se moría…

Y si acaso yo muero en la guerra

Y mi cadáver lo van a sepultar

Adelita, por Dios te lo ruego

Que por mí no vayas a llorar

At the top of a steep mountain range

Encamped was a regiment

And a brave girl followed him

She madly in love with the sergeant

Popular with the troop was Adelita

The woman the sergeant idolized

That besides being brave she was pretty

That even the colonel respected her

And she could hear her say

The one who loved her so much...

If Adelita left with another

He would follow her by land and by sea

If she by sea on a warship

If by land in a military train

If Adelita wanted to be my wife

And if Adelita were already my wife

She would buy him a silk dress

To take her to dance at the barracks

And after the cruel battle was over

And the troop returned to their camp

For the time of a woman who sobbed

The prayer was heard in the camp

And when the fearful sergeant heard it

Of losing his beloved forever

Hiding his pain from her under the overflow

He sang to his beloved her in this way...

And she could hear her say

The one who died so much...

And if I die in the war

And my corpse is going to be buried

Adelita, by God I beg you

Don't go crying for me