Dos Monedas

Two Coins

Dos Monedas

I am the most unfortunate in the worldSoy el mas desdichado del mundo
And the fault lies with this viceY la culpa la tiene este vicio
The woman I had left me, now I also lose my sonMe dejo la mujer que tenia ahora pierdo tambien a mi hijo
He never knew what a father wasEl jamas supo lo que era un padre
Because I was always drunkPor que yo andaba siempre borracho
He begged for alms on the streetEl pidiendo en la calle limosna
So that I could keep drinkingPara que yo siguera tomando

One night it rained until winterUna noche llovio hasta el invierno
The poor man arrived where I wasLlego el pobre hasta donde yo estaba
And he said to me, forgive me daddyY me dijo perdon papasito
Now they really didn't give me anythingahora si que no me dieron nada
I'm hungry and also very coldTengo hambre y tambien mucho frio
Please don't say anything todayPor favor hoy no me digas nada

But I, blinded by so much angerPero yo ciego de tanta ira
I hit him almost to deathLe golpie hasta casi matarlo
And I told him to go to the streetY le dije te vas a la calle
I won't tolerate you anymoreYa no pienso seguirte aguantando
You don't even have a home or a father if you don't bringya no tienes ni casa ni padre si no traes
to keep drinkingpara seguir tomando

The poor man left trembling with coldsalio el pobre temblando de frio
and crying for what I said to himy llorando por lo que le dije
while I, at home, brutishmientras yo en la casa embrutecido
knowing that I cursed him so muchsabradios que tanto lo maldije

Alcohol and sleep overcame meel alcohol y el sueo me vencieron
I woke up almost at dawndesperte casi ya amaneciendo
When I opened the door of the houseal abrir la puerta de la casa
I couldn't believe what I was seeingno crei lo que yo estaba viendo

There was my son lying therealli estaba mi hijo tirado
He had died of hunger and coldhabia muerto de hambre y de frio
In his hand I found two coinsen su mano le halle dos monedas
that he brought me to buy more wineque me traiba pa comprar mas vino
and I, drunk, didn't hear him knockingy yo briago no oi que tocaba
and so the poor man died forgotteny asi el pobre murio en el olvido

Because of being drunk, I lost my sonpor borracho perdi yo a mi hijo
and my wife whom I adored so muchy a mi esposa que tanto adoraba
I want to ask parentsyo le quiero pedir a los padres
not to harm their childrenque no le hagan un mal a sus hijos
Maybe God sent me this punishmenttal vez dios me mando este castigo
for throwing myself into the path of vice.por tirarme a la senda del vicio.