Don Enrique Del Meñique

Don Enrique of the Pinky Finger

Don Enrique Del Meñique

Neither asleep nor awakeNi dormido ni despierto
Like every morningComo todas las mañanas
Don Enrique of the Pinky FingerDon Enrique del Meñique
Is eager, very eagerTiene ganas, muchas ganas
To have his breakfastDe tomar su desayuno
With fourteen half-loavesCon catorce mediaslanas

Don Enrique has a houseDon Enrique tiene casa
With many gardensCon muchísimos jardines
And among his rose bushesY por entre sus rosales
He skates aroundSe pasea con patines
But oh! That morningPero ¡ay! Esa mañana
He got his pants caughtSe enganchó los pantalines

Imagine what a bumpSe imaginan qué porrazo
Imagine what a fallSe imaginan qué caída
There nearby awaited himAllí cerca lo esperaba
A well-served tableUna mesa bien servida
Don Enrique, with his noseDon Enrique, de nariz
Fell into the jamSe cayó en la mermelida

Don Enrique was kickingDon Enrique pataleaba
The firefighters, an accident!¡Los bomberos, accidente!
Nobody, nobody heard himNadie, nadie lo escuchaba
But on the balcony acrossPero en el balcón de enfrente
Attracted by the screamsAtraído por los gritos
A elephent appearedAsomase un elefente

He stretched out his trunkEstiró bien la trompita
Through the bars of his kennelTras las rejas de su cucha
But the poor thing was so nearsightedPero el pobre era tan miope
That after much struggleQue después de mucha lucha
Instead of Don EnriqueEn lugar de don Enrique
He lifted the cockroachLevantó la cucarucha

But finally the firefighter arrivedPero al fin llegó el bombero
All wrapped in a ribbonTodo envuelto en una cinta
What was in his hoseLo que había en su manguera
Was not water, but inkNo era agua, sino tinta
And he wielded, instead of an axeY empuñaba, en vez del hacha
A golden pencil sharpenerUn dorado sacapinta