Lirios y Rosas - Diego El Cigala, Javier Limón, Ramon Manuel Jiménez "el Cigala"

Yo tuve un barco de vapor

De azul color

Con chimeneas amarillas

Que nunca, nunca naufragaba

Todas las olas las surcaba

Y yo con él, tirando millas

Salí un buen día a atravesar

El ancho mar

Mi rumbo fue Nueva Zelanda

Tierra natal del maorí

Que es nuestro antípoda y allí

Ver si al revés es como anda

Y vi a un maorí

Pero estaba tumbado

Y no se levantó

Al sentirse observado

No sé ni ya sabré

Si andaba enrevesado

Así que me fui muy

Muy desilusionado

Pensé que por el Ecuador

Y alrededor

La gente iría de costado

En posición horizontal

Modo de andar original

Y digno de ser contemplado

Llegué después de anochecer

Y, al parecer

Estaban todos en sus camas

¿Es que no hay nadie en vuestras calles?

Grité.

Y gritaron: ¡que te calles!

No se anduvieron por las ramas

En fin, que me fui sin

Haberlo averiguado

Al ártico polar

A comerme un helado

Igual el esquimal

Que es un hombre educado

Que sé que va de pie

No me daba de lado

Zarpé de nuevo en mi vapor

Con el motor

A toda marcha rumbo al norte

Despreocupado ya de andares

Tan sólo por surcar los mares

Por el helado y por deporte

Y vi de pronto a un esquimal

Sensacional

Era un acróbata muy fino

Era el mejor de los atletas

Dio veinte o treinta volteretas

Y luego dijo, haciendo el pino:

Eh, tú, vente a mi iglú

No te quedes pasmado

Que si no eres de aquí

Tendrás un resfriado

Por fin tanto trajín

Me dio buen resultado

Así que respondí:

Muy bien

Yo te invito a un helado

I had a steamboat

of blue color

With yellow chimneys

That never, never was shipwrecked

All the waves crossed them

And I with him, pulling miles

I went out one fine day to cross

the wide sea

My destination was New Zealand

Maori homeland

Which is our antipode and there

See if the other way around is how it goes

And I saw a Maori

But he was lying

And he didn't get up

feeling watched

I don't know nor will I ever know

If he was messed up

So I went very

very disappointed

I thought that for the equator

And around

People would go sideways

in horizontal position

original gait

And worth to behold

I arrived after dark

And it seems

They were all in their beds

Is there no one in your streets?

I yelled.

And they shouted: shut up!

They didn't beat around the bush

Anyway, I left without

figured it out

to the polar arctic

to eat an ice cream

same eskimo

That he is an educated man

I know that he is standing

I did not give up

I set sail again on my steam

with the engine

Full steam ahead north

already carefree of walking

Just to sail the seas

For ice cream and for sport

And suddenly I saw an Eskimo

Sensational

He was a very fine acrobat

He was the best of athletes

He did twenty or thirty somersaults

And then he said, doing a handstand:

Hey you, come to my igloo

don't be stunned

What if you're not from here

you will have a cold

finally so much work

he gave me good results

So I replied:

very well

I invite you to an ice cream