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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Translation © by Claudia Landivar Cody

Seguidilla murciana
Language: Spanish (Español) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FRE
Cualquiera que el tejado
Tenga de vidrio,
No debe tirar piedras
Al del vecino.
Arrieros semos;
¡Puede que en el camino
Nos encontremos!

Por tu mucha inconstancia
Yo te comparo
Con peseta que corre
De mano en mano;
Que al fin se borra,
Y creyéndola falsa
¡Nadie la toma!

Text Authorship:

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

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

  • ENG English (Claudia Landivar Cody) , title 1: "Seguidilla Murciana", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Claycomb) , title 1: "Murcian Seguidilla", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Séguedille de Murcie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Arthur Rishi

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 49

Seguidilla Murciana
Language: English  after the Spanish (Español) 
Who has a roof
of glass
should not throw stones
to their neighbor's (roof).
Let us be muleteers;
It could be that on the road
we will meet!

For your great inconstancy
I compare you
to a [coin] that runs
from hand to hand;
which finally blurs,
and, believing it false,
no one accepts!

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2003 by Claudia Landivar Cody, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 54