La Rata Vieja (Canción)

From Diez Deditos

Selected, Arranged, and Translated by JOSE LUIS OROZCO

UNA RATA VIEJA

Una rata vieja

que era planchadora,

por planchar su falda

¡se quemó la cola!

Se puso pomada.

Se amarró un trapito

Y la pobre rata

le quedó un rabito.

Translation:

An old rat

was ironing one day,

and when she pressed her skirt

she burned her tail away!

She applied some ointment

She wrapped it in a veil.

And the poor rat

lost most of her tail.