VersiĂłn: IsaĂas garde
HabĂa estado todo el dĂa tocando el violĂn en la feria del pueblo.
Pero volviendo a casa, Butch Weldy y Jack McGuire,
que estaban totalmente borrachos, me hicieron tocar y tocar
La canciĂłn de Susie Skinner, mientras fustigaban a los caballos
hasta que se desbocaron. Ciego como era, traté de escaparme
mientras el carro volcaba en la cuneta;
quedĂ© enganchado entre las ruedas y morĂ.
Por acá hay un ciego con una frente
amplia y blanca como una nube.
Y todos los violinistas,
los compositores de mĂşsica y los contadores de historias,
desde el mayor al menor,
nos sentamos a sus pies
a escucharlo cantar la caĂda de Troya.
Blind Jack
I had fiddled all day at the county fair.
But driving home "Butch" Weldy and Jack McGuire,
Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle
To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses
Till they ran away. Blind as I was, I tried to get out
As the carriage fell in the ditch,
And was caught in the wheels and killed.
There's a blind man here with a brow
As big and white as a cloud.
And all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest,
Writers of music and tellers of stories
Sit at his feet,
And hear him sing of the fall of Troy.
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