Hoy No Me Levanto Yo [English translation]

There's one thing for sure:

I don't get up today!

I have sheets and blankets,

a good pillow and a good mattress,

I have tobacco and matches

and good imagination

and here in my bed I've come

to the clear conclusion,

that whatever happens,

I don't get up today!

Near the noon

come into my room

my wife and my sister-in-law

and my oldest daughter

and my mother-in-law with her sister

who's here now as guest

and confirms my plan

to confirm their irritation

everytime I repeat

that I don't get up today!

Everyone talking in their time

demand a reason,

I feel no pain

neither any unease,

the kid didn't woke me up,

I slept in one go,

I digested well the fabada, 1

nightmares, no sir,

but here I'm in the glory

and I don't get up today!

My wife told me off

with patience and love

my mother-in-law harsher,

my daughter disappeared

and brought me a tea with milk

and some ham slices.

I drank the tea with milk,

I was happy and I said, no!

leave me because it's impossible

I don't get up today!

Finally I told them, even they come

government and opposition,

the TV and the press

and the council in procession,

cops and sheriffs

sent by the Government

and the very communists

expel me,

even if God and the Devil come,

I don't get up today!

Today one is born with the fate

of acting for acting;

people goes furious

and don't stop to think

that sometimes one can skip

the act of getting up

and even if you are not needed

they come to rummage you,

if it's up to me, they can sing the mass,

I'm not going to get up!

1. Spanish bean stew

• Artist:Amancio Prada
• Album:Hasta Otro Día (A Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio) [2005]