Romance de la reina Mercedes [English translation]

A dahlia was keeping Seville

At the Montpansier's park

Dressed in a white shawl

She looked like a tea rose

From Madrid with top hat and sideburns

Came a very courtly royal lad

And kissed Mercedes in the cheeks

Because the children are first cousins

A love romance started to smile...

While they sing in low tone

By the Guadalquivir shore:

María de las Mercedes

Don't go from Seville

That could turn into a nard

The carnation of your cheeks

Whether you want or not

Even if you don't say anything

I can see by your eyebags

That you're very in love

Rose of Andalusia

Love caught you in the nets

And it could be that someday

It can cost your life

María de las Mercedes

A spring afternoon

Merceditas changed her color

And Alfonsito, who was beside her

Said: "What do you have, darling?"

And just like a lamp

The sovereign was turning off

And the roses in her face

Turned into porcelain

And Mercedes died starting to live

And at the Oriente plaza, Oh Lord!

All Madrid went to cry for her

María de las Mercedes

My most sevillian rose

Why you leave my nets

From one day to the next?

Of love are my wounds

And of love my disillusion

Of seeing you dying

At the age of eighteen

Goodbye, beautiful princess

That you can't kiss me anymore

Goodbye, rose face

Goodbye, my dear wife

María de las Mercedes

On shoulders by Madrid

Four dukes took her

And were counted by thousands

The carnations they throw

You're going to heaven

Without a son who inherits you

Spain dresses in mourning

And the king has no consolation

Oh, María de las Mercedes!

• Artist:Paquita Rico