A timid man | Coming to my window grate to look at me

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by Fernando Periquet (1873 - 1940)

Translation © by Michael P Rosewall

El majo timido

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

Llega a mi reja y me mira
por la noche un majo
que, en cuanto me ve y suspira,
se va calle abajo.
¡Ay qué tío más tardío!
¡Si así se pasa la vida estoy
divertida!

[Otra vez pasa y se alejo]¹
y no se entusiasma
[y bajito yo le digo]²
¡Adiós Don Fantasma!
¡Ay que tío más tardío!
[Si así se pasa la vida
estoy divertida.]³

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ or "Si hoy también pasa y me mira".
² or "pues le suelto este saludo:"
³ or "¡Odian las enamoradas / las rejas calladas!"

Text Authorship:

by Fernando Periquet (1873 - 1940) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Enrique Granados y Campiña (1867 - 1916), "El majo timido", from Colección de tonadillas, no. 6. [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Michael P. Rosewall) , "A timid man", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "L'amoureux timide", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , "Der schüchternde Majo", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 70

A timid man

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

Coming to my window grate to look at me
In the evening is a gent
Who, when he has seen enough, sighs
And disappears down the road.
Ah, what a fleeting fellow!
If this is how life will go, 
it’ll kill me!

It happens again and he runs away
And so, without enthusiasm,
I say softly to him,
“Adios, Mr. Ghost!”
Ah, what a fleeting fellow!
If this is how life will go, 
it’ll kill me!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Fernando Periquet (1873 - 1940)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-08-27
Line count: 14
Word count: 76