- Capitán de guerra d'ande vienes tú? - D'arriba los Balkanes, de campos de guerra. - Ah, si tú verías un hijo, soldat, soldado era bruno, su nombre era Yudá. - Chica blanca y hermosa, ya lo vide yo: en campos de la guerra entre mis brazos murió.
- Captain from the war Where do you come from? - From the Balkans, from the fields of war. - Ah, did you see there a son, soldier, a dark haired soldier his name was Yuda. - White and beautiful girl, I have seen him on the fields of war he died in my arms.
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000
Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who looses her son, his name Yehuda sung in Hebrew.
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