# Help with old spanish folk song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-old-spanish-folk-song/465228>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 25, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-old-spanish-folk-song/465228 "2008-09-25T21:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-old-spanish-folk-song/465228/1 "2008-09-25T21:41:53Z")

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I was listening to an old folksong on You Tube called “Un deseo lleno de impaciencia santa.” I like the song but unfortunately I took Spanish roughly 30 years ago and only got to level two so I have no idea what the lyrics mean and all my google searches have been in vain. Anyone out there who speaks Spanish well enough to give me an idea? I can’t even find the lyrics written in Spanish online so as to attempt a translation myself.

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**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-old-spanish-folk-song/465228/2 "2008-09-25T22:05:51Z")

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A wish filled with holy impatience.  
Why, if you admit my complaints  
You run from my arms afterwards?  
And when I arrive to yours  
You leave and leave me alone?  
Once you told me  
Promising the good thing you are waiting for  
“Open your mouth, that I want  
to fill it with my graces”  
And now that in your visits  
Of impatient thirst I rage  
As soon as I touch it with my lip  
When you take my cup away

I look at the good things that taunt me  
And how I only see him  
And I don’t enjoy him desire  
That my eyes become a mouth.

When, the pity I feel  
Will touch in enjoyment love  
And the pain will have an end  
Of this sweet torment  
When, in the sweet rags, of your loving ties  
My arms will have to do  
What my eyes are doing now

No. I’m not even kidding. This is the literal translation from modern Spanish to modern English. Of course, being a medieval jewish song adapted to the Mexican variant of Spanish, some things must have been lost in translation.