La Cama de Piedra [English translation]

Out of stone the bed has to be

Out of stone the headboard,

The woman who loves me,

Must truly love me

Ay,ay, dear* why don’t you love me?

I went up to the scene of the crime

I ask the foreman

To condemn me to death

If loving you is a crime

Ay, ay, heart why don’t you love?

The day I get killed

Let it be of five gunshots

And be quite close to you

In order to die in your arms

Ay, ay, dear why don’t you love?

For a coffin I want a sarape**

For a cross my double bandolier

And over my tombstone

Let my last goodbye be written with a thousand bullets

Ay, ay, dear why don’t you love?

• Artist:Lila Downs