Obradors / Castillejo : Al amor

Al Amor (Canciones clásicas españolas, no. 1)

Text: Cristobal de Castillejo (d. 1550)

Dame, Amor, besos sin cuento

Asido de mis cabellos

Y mil y ciento tras ellos

Y tras ellos mil y ciento

Y después de muchos millares--tres!

Y porque nadie lo sienta

Desbaratemos la cuenta

Y contemos--al revés.

To My Love

(English version ©2010, E. Lein)

Give me, Love, kisses as countless

As the hairs that have clung to my head!

And add a thousand and a hundred,

And then a hundred and a thousand,

And to these many thousands--add three!

And as none might agree

Let us rip up that tally

And then count again--only backwards!