03. Romance of the Lover and Death | Bilingual Karaoke (Legends of Spain)

Volume 3 of the "Legends of Spain" collection. 🏰🥀

Experience the haunting beauty of the Spanish "Romancero Viejo" in this special Bilingual Karaoke edition.

This video features a cinematic "Call and Response" duet: 🎤 Male Voice (Spanish): Sings the original medieval poem. 🎤 Female Voice (English): Responds with the translation, like a ghostly echo.

The Story: In a vivid dream, a lover is visited by Death (La Muerte). Granted only one hour to live, he rushes to his beloved's house, desperate for a final embrace before time runs out.

📜 Bilingual Lyrics / Letra Bilingüe:

Un sueño soñaba anoche, soñito del alma mía, I dreamed a dream last night, a little dream of my soul,

soñaba con mis amores, que en mis brazos los tenía. I dreamed of my true love, held within my arms.

Vi entrar señora tan blanca, muy más que la nieve fría. I saw a lady enter, whiter than the cold snow.

—¿Por dónde has entrado, amor? ¿Cómo has entrado, mi vida? —How did you enter, love? How did you get in, my life?

Las puertas están cerradas, ventanas y celosías. The doors are all locked tight, the windows and the shutters too.

—No soy el amor, amante; la Muerte que Dios te envía. —I am not Love, lover; I am Death sent by God.

—¡Ay, Muerte tan rigurosa, déjame vivir un día! —Oh, Death so rigorous, let me live for just one day!

—Un día no puede ser, una hora tienes de vida. —A day it cannot be, you have one hour to live.

Muy deprisa se calzaba, más deprisa se vestía; Very quickly he put on shoes, even faster he got dressed;

ya se va para la calle, en donde su amor vivía. now he goes out to the street, to where his love lived.

—¡Ábreme la puerta, blanca, ábreme la puerta, niña! —Open the door for me, fair one, open the door, my girl!

—¿Cómo te podré yo abrir si la ocasión no es venida? —How can I open for you if the time has not yet come?

Mi padre no fue al palacio, mi madre no está dormida. My father is not at the palace, my mother is not asleep.

—Si no me abres esta noche, ya no me abrirás, querida; —If you don't open tonight, you never will, my dear;

la Muerte me está buscando, junto a ti vida sería. Death is searching for me, my life would be by your side.

—Vete bajo la ventana donde labraba y cosía, —Go beneath the window where I used to sew,

te echaré cordón de seda para que subas arriba, I'll throw you a cord of silk so you can climb up high,

y si el cordón no alcanzare mis trenzas añadiría. and if the cord does not reach, I would add my braids.

La fina seda se rompe; la Muerte que allí venía: The fine silk snaps and breaks; Death was already there:

—Vamos, el enamorado, que la hora ya está cumplida. —Let's go, lovestruck one, for the hour is now complete.

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