Strange Death Of John Doe
I'll sing you a song and it's not very long.
It's about a young man who never did wrong;
Suddenly he died one day.
The reason why, no one would say.
He was tall and long and his arms were strong,
And this is the strange part of my song;
He was always well from foot to head,
And then one day they found him dead.
They found him dead so I've been told,
His eyes were closed, his heart was cold;
Only one clue to why he died -
A bayonet sticking in his side.
La extraña muerte de Juan Pérez
Te cantaré una canción y no es muy larga.
Es sobre un joven que nunca hizo nada malo;
De repente murió un día.
La razón, nadie la diría.
Era alto y delgado y sus brazos eran fuertes,
Y esta es la parte extraña de mi canción;
Siempre estuvo bien de pies a cabeza,
Y luego un día lo encontraron muerto.
Lo encontraron muerto, según me han contado,
Sus ojos estaban cerrados, su corazón estaba frío;
Sólo una pista de por qué murió -
Un bayoneta clavada en su costado.
Escrita por: Millard Lampell