En tu capote de seda [English translation]

1.

In your silk cloak,

Hope, hope

Hope I want to be

- -

Hope I want to be

Always seeking your glory

Caught by my love

Always seeking your glory

Caught by my love

I discovered your affection

one happy early morning

in your arena of love

in your arena of love

and in my dressed up bullring

2.

In your pretty banderillas

My loves, my loves

You carry my loves.

- -

Carry my loves

So that the bullring knows it

And the blue sky understands it

So that the bullring knows it

And the blue sky understands it.

I discovered your affection

one happy early morning

in your arena of love

in your arena of love

and in my dressed up bullring

3.

In your matador's muleta1

My promises, My promises

My promises always go

- -

My promises always go

When the veritable bull

Sets out for the arena

When the veritable bull

Sets out for the arena

I discovered your affection

one happy early morning

in your arena of love

in your arena of love

and in my dressed up bullring

4.

On the point of your sword

My sorrows2, my sorrows

To wound my sorrows

- -

To wound my sorrows

and those bulls of jealousy

of pain and of suffering

and those bulls of jealousy

of pain and of suffering

I discovered your affection

one happy early morning

in your arena of love

in your arena of love

and in my dressed up bullring

1. stick with red cloth attached2. duquelas is a word from flamenco jargon (caló) which isn't in any Spanish dictionary I have access to; but it means some sort of blend or combination of "concerns", "sorrows", "worries", "bits of mental fatigue", "preoccupations", and "stuff one can't get out of on's mind". The only definition I ever saw said that it was impossible to express in a single Spanish word; I can't think how to do it in English either

• Artist:Isabel Pantoja
• Album:Viva Triana (1982)