Buena Vista Social Club
Dos gardenias lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1997
- Genre
- Son Cubano
- Length
- 3:05
Dos gardenias para ti
Two gardenias for you
Con ellas quiero decir
With them I want to say
Te quiero, te adoro, mi vida
I love you, I adore you, my life
Ponles toda tu atención
Give them all your attention
Que serán tu corazón y el mío
For they will be your heart and mine
Dos gardenias para ti
Two gardenias for you
Que tendrán todo el calor de un beso
That will have all the warmth of a kiss
De esos besos que te di
Of those kisses I gave you
Y que jamás te encontrarán
And that will never find you
En el calor de otro querer
In the warmth of another love
A tu lado vivirán y se hablarán
By your side they will live and they will talk
Como cuando estás conmigo
Like when you're with me
Y hasta creerán que te dirán
And even they'll believe they tell you
Te quiero
I love you
Pero si un atardecer
But if one sunset
Las gardenias de mi amor se mueren
The gardenias of my love are dying
Es porque han adivinado
It's because they've guessed
Que tu amor me ha traicionado
That your love has betrayed me
Porque existe otro querer
Because there's another love
A tu lado vivirán y se hablarán
By your side they will live and they will talk
Como cuando estás conmigo
Like when you're with me
Y hasta creerán que te dirán
And they'll even believe they'll tell you
Te quiero
I love you
Pero si un atardecer
But if one sunset
Las gardenias de mi amor se mueren
The gardenias of my love are dying
Es porque han adivinado
It's because they've guessed
Que tu amor me ha traicionado
That your love has betrayed me
Porque existe otro querer
Because there's another love
Es porque han adivinado
It's because they've guessed
Que tu amor me ha traicionado
That your love has betrayed me
Porque existe otro querer
Because there's another love
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Key vocabulary
- besos
- kissesA2
- atardecer
- sunsetB2
- adivinado
- guessed
- adoro
- I adoreB2
- amor
- loveB1
- atención
- attentionA1
- beso
- kissB1
- calor
- heatA1
- como
- likeB1
- conmigo
- with meB1
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About this song
Producer Ry Cooder originally intended to record Malian musicians and Cuban locals, but the Africans were unable to obtain visas, so he made an album of Cuban son instead.