Dos Monedas

Soy el mas desdichado del mundo

I am the most unfortunate in the world

Y la culpa la tiene este vicio

And the fault lies with this vice

Me dejo la mujer que tenia ahora pierdo tambien a mi hijo

The woman I had left me, now I also lose my son

El jamas supo lo que era un padre

He never knew what a father was

Por que yo andaba siempre borracho

Because I was always drunk

El pidiendo en la calle limosna

He begged in the street for alms

Para que yo siguera tomando

So that I could keep drinking

Una noche llovio hasta el invierno

One night it rained until winter

Llego el pobre hasta donde yo estaba

The poor man reached where I was

Y me dijo perdon papasito

And he said to me, forgive me, daddy

ahora si que no me dieron nada

Now they didn't give me anything

Tengo hambre y tambien mucho frio

I'm hungry and also very cold

Por favor hoy no me digas nada

Please, today don't say anything to me

Pero yo ciego de tanta ira

But I, blinded by so much anger

Le golpie hasta casi matarlo

I hit him until almost killing him

Y le dije te vas a la calle

And I said, go to the street

Ya no pienso seguirte aguantando

I won't keep putting up with you

ya no tienes ni casa ni padre si no traes

You have neither a home nor a father if you don't bring

para seguir tomando

to keep drinking

salio el pobre temblando de frio

The poor man went out trembling with cold

y llorando por lo que le dije

And crying for what I told him

mientras yo en la casa embrutecido

While I, at home, brutish

sabradios que tanto lo maldije

God knows how much I cursed him

el alcohol y el sueo me vencieron

Alcohol and sleep overcame me

desperte casi ya amaneciendo

I woke up almost at dawn

al abrir la puerta de la casa

When I opened the door of the house

no crei lo que yo estaba viendo

I couldn't believe what I was seeing

alli estaba mi hijo tirado

There was my son lying

habia muerto de hambre y de frio

He had died of hunger and cold

en su mano le halle dos monedas

In his hand, I found two coins

que me traiba pa comprar mas vino

That he brought to buy more wine

y yo briago no oi que tocaba

And I, drunk, didn't hear him knocking

y asi el pobre murio en el olvido

And so the poor man died in oblivion

por borracho perdi yo a mi hijo

Because of being drunk, I lost my son

y a mi esposa que tanto adoraba

And my wife whom I adored so much

yo le quiero pedir a los padres

I want to ask parents

que no le hagan un mal a sus hijos

Not to harm their children

tal vez dios me mando este castigo

Maybe God sent me this punishment

por tirarme a la senda del vicio.

For throwing myself into the path of vice