Va aparèixer el diable

Oh my, oh my, what a wretched life

I was born on the day that my poor mamma died

I was cut from her belly with a Stanley knife

My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife

Déu meu, Déu meu, quina vida més miserable!
Quan vaig néixer, ma mare va morir al part
Em van tallar el cordó amb un cúter
Mon pare ho va celebrar amb la llevadora beguda

Who's that yonder all in flames

Dragging behind him a sack of chains

Who's that yonder all in flames

Up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me

Qui és aquest que ve de les flames
arrossegant un sac de cadenes?
Qui és aquest que ve de les flames?
Va aparèixer el diable i em va cridar

Oh poor heart, I was doomed from the start

Doomed to play the villain's part

I was the baddest Johnny in the apple cart

My blood was blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart

Pobre de mi, maleït de bones a primeres
Condemnat a assumir el rol de malvat
La poma podrida del cistell
Ma sang més fosca que el cor d'una monja morta

Who's that milling round the courthouse steps?

Nailing my face to the hitching fence

Who's that milling round the courthouse steps?

Up jumped the Devil and off we crept

Qui ronda per les escales dels jutjats?
Enganxant el meu retrat als taulers
Qui ronda per les escales dels jutjats?
Va aparèixer el diable i vam marxar

Oh no, oh no, where could I go

With my hump of trouble and my sack of woe?

To the digs and deserts of Mexico

Where my neck was safe from the lynching rope

Collona, on podria anar
amb el meu gep de problemes i el meu sac de penúries?
A les coves i als deserts de Mèxic
On el meu coll era més lluny de la forca

Who's that yonder laughing at me?

Like I was the brunt of some hilarity

Who's that yonder laughing at me?

Well, up jumped the Devil, one, two, three

Qui se n’enfot de mi?
Com si fos un bon motiu per enriure-se’n
Qui se n’enfot de mi?

De sobte el diable, un dos tres

Ha-ha ha ha ha, how lucky we were

We hit the cathouse and sampled their wares

We got as drunk as a couple of czars

That night I swatted my lucky star

Ha ha ha, quina sort vam tenir
Vam anar al bordell i vam tastar el percal
Ens vam emborratxar com un parell de tsars
La nit en què vaig esberlar la meva sort

Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof?

Stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof

Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof?

Up jumped the Devil and said "Here is your man, I got proof"

Qui balla al terrat de la presó?
Deixant-hi les empremtes de les petjades
Qui balla al terrat de la presó?
I el diable va dir "Aquí el teniu, en tinc les proves"

Oh no, oh no, don't go, oh slow down Joe

The righteous path is straight as an arrow

Take a walk and you'll find it's too narrow

Too narrow for the likes of me

No, no, no marxis, atura't cony
El camí correcte és recte com una fletxa
Si hi passeges el trobaràs massa estret
Massa estret pel meu gust

Who's that hanging from the gallow tree?

His eyes are plucked but he looks like me

Now, who's that swinging from the gallow tree?

Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me

Qui penja de l'arbre dels penjats?
Els seus ulls sobresurten però s'assembla a mi
Qui es gronxa de l'arbre dels penjats?
Va aparèixer el diable i se’m va endur l'ànima

Down, down, down, down we go

Down we go, down we go, down we go

The Devil and me

Down we go, down we go, down we go

Down, down, down, The Devil and me

Down we go, down we go, for eternity, down we go

Down we go, yeah down we go, down we go

Down, down, down, down we go

Down we go, down we go, the Devil and me

Down we go, down we go

Ben avall, ben avall, cap avall
El diable i jo
cap avall
fins a l'eternitat
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