Yo me akodro de akella noche kuando la luna testigo testigo fue, tu perkuraste kerer amarme, hoy me abandonates por otra mujer. Ken me va a kerer a mí, ken me va a tomar a mí, sabiendo ke yo te kero, ke yo me muero d’amor por ti. Un hijo tengo, muy bien lo sabes, ke en la miseria lo vine a hacer, maldicho padre ke hijo tiene ke no lo kere rekonocer. Ken me va a kerer a mí...... En un konvento muy religioso yo kon mi hijo me vo a ir, a konfesar los mis pekados ke kon mis manos los kometí. Ken me va a kerer a mí...... A mi kasa blanka komo la laja ahí va ruinar luto y soledad, a mí me van a estrenar mortaja por velo de mi noviedad. Por mi no debes de llorar, vos debes de alegrar, sabiendo ke yo te kero ke yo me muero d’amor por ti. A medianoche de la nochada a mi namorado infiel él me ĵuraba de no ngañarme y yo me iba detrás de él. De mí no kale llorar, vos debes de alegrar siento kastigario fuerte dad la muerte ke me va asperar. A medianoche yo me kedaba por asperarlo a mi fiel, yo no sabía ke me engañaba, y sin pensar me iba kon él. De mí no kale llorar… A mi kasa blanka komo la laja este placer se emborrachó dejo mi puerpo desvirginiado, honor de famiya me manchó. De mí no kale llorar…
I remember that night when the moon was a witness, you strived to love me, today you abandoned me for another woman. Who is going to love me, who's going take me, knowing that I love you, that I'm dying of love for you. I have a son, you know that well, I came to make him in misery, cursed father that son has who doesn't want to know him. Who is going to love me, In a very religious convent I'm going to go with my son, to confess my sins... that I committed with my hands. Who is going to love me, To my house as white as flagstone It is a ruin of mourning and loneliness, I'm going to have my shroud torn off for the veil of my betrothal. For me you must not cry, you must rejoice, knowing that I love you I'm dying of love for you. At midnight of the night to my unfaithful lover he would try not to cheat me and I was going after him. Do not cry for me, you must be glad I feel that a punishment from above Will touch me with death that awaits And this will give me hope At midnight I was staying to wait for my faithful one, I didn't know he was cheating on me, and without thinking I went with him. Do not cry for me… My house as white as flagstone this is a place of drink I allowed my body to be deflowered, And stained my family’s honor Do not cry for me…
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This is a well known song among Saloniki Jews, and is an adaptation of a Spanish song.
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