En la costa suiza - Carmen Paris

En un pueblo de allá por la costa suiza

-ohé, ohé-

Un viejo pescador

Borrachín, tranquilo, sin dar la paliza

A nadie de su alrededor

Pretendía vivir a su manera

Que era:

Salir a pescar

Y pescar

Boquerón, calamar

O alguna ballenita

-que también las da el mar-

Y después regresar

Con la frente marchita

Como dice el cantar

Que se suele volver

Y vender el pescado en la lonja

Boquerón, calamar

Una esponja

-que también las da el mar-

Y cobrar

Lo que hubiera ganado

Al vender el pescado

Y marcharse a gastar

Lo que hubiera cobrado

En comer

Y en comprar

Cuanto es menester

Poseer

E invitar a beber

Y beber hasta el anochecer

Y arrojar lo que hubiera sobrado

Del dinero cobrado

Arrojárselo al mar

Devolver

Devolverle el dinero

Y cada amanecer

Empezar desde cero

Pero muchos vecinos denunciáronle al pobre

-ohé, ohé-

Por contaminar

Que sus pocas monedas, sus «vertidos de

Cobre»

Ponían perdidito el mar

Y no pudo vivir a su manera

Que era:

Salir a pescar

Y pescar

Boquerón, calamar

O alguna ballenita

-que también las da el mar-

Y después regresar

Con la frente marchita

Como dice el cantar

Que se debe volver

Y vender el pescado en la lonja

Boquerón, calamar

Una esponja

-que también las da el mar-

Y cobrar

Lo que hubiera ganado

Al vender el pescado

Y marcharse a gastar

Lo que hubiera cobrado

En comer

Y en comprar

Cuanto es menester

Poseer

E invitar a beber

Y beber hasta el anochecer

Y arrojar lo que hubiera sobrado

Del dinero cobrado

Arrojárselo al mar

Devolver

Devolverle el dinero

Y cada amanecer

Empezar desde cero

In a town over there on the Swiss coast

-ohe, ohe-

an old fisherman

Drunk, calm, without giving a beating

To no one around

He intended to live his way

What was it:

Go fishing

and fish

anchovy, squid

Or some little whale

-which is also given by the sea-

and then return

With the withered forehead

as the sing says

which is usually returned

And sell the fish in the fish market

anchovy, squid

A sponge

-which is also given by the sea-

and collect

what i would have won

When selling the fish

And go spend

What I would have charged

Eating

And in buy

How much is necessary

Own

And invite to drink

And drink until dark

And throw away what was left over

of the money collected

throw it into the sea

Return

pay you back

and every dawn

Starting over

But many neighbors denounced the poor

-ohe, ohe-

for polluting

That his few coins, his "spills of

Copper"

They lost the sea

And he couldn't live his way

What was it:

Go fishing

and fish

anchovy, squid

Or some little whale

-which is also given by the sea-

and then return

With the withered forehead

as the sing says

that must be returned

And sell the fish in the fish market

anchovy, squid

A sponge

-which is also given by the sea-

and collect

what i would have won

When selling the fish

And go spend

What I would have charged

Eating

And in buy

How much is necessary

Own

And invite to drink

And drink until dark

And throw away what was left over

of the money collected

throw it into the sea

Return

pay you back

and every dawn

Starting over