The Circus Band
Language: English
Available translation(s): SPA
All summer long, we boys
dreamed 'bout big circus joys!
Down Main street, comes the band,
Oh! "Aint it a grand and glorious noise!"
Horses are prancing, knights advancing;
Helmets gleaming, pennants streaming,
Cleopatra's on her throne!
That golden hair is all her own.
Where is the lady all in pink?
Last year she waved to me I think,
Can she have died? Can! that! rot!
She is passing but she sees me not.
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- SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "La banda del circo", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74
La banda del circo
Language: Spanish (Español)  after the English
¡Durante todo el verano, los muchachos
soñábamos con las grandes alegrías del circo!
Por la calle Mayor, llega la banda,
¡ah! "¿No es un ruido magnífico y maravilloso?"
Los Caballos hacen cabriolas, los Caballeros avanzan;
los Cascos relucen, los Banderines ondean,
¡Cleopatra está en su trono!
Ese pelo dorado es todo suyo.
¿Dónde está la dama toda vestida de rosa?
Creo que el año pasado me saludó con la mano,
¿es posible que haya muerto? ¡Es posible! ¡Eso! ¡Tonterías!
¡Está pasando, pero no me ve!
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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 86