Rey Fernando 3

From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018.

In later epic poems like Las Mocedades de Rodrigo, the legend of El Cid includes the tale of him killing Jimena Gómez's father, after which the king resolves the conflict by marrying them—a story preserved in 16th-century ballads and oral traditions from Morocco, Andalusia, and Portugal. Sephardic tradition often fuses two epic themes: first, a legendary Castilian invasion of France under Ferdinand I, as seen in medieval chronicles; second, a family conflict after Ferdinand’s death, where Sancho II imprisons his brother Alfonso, and their sister Urraca pleads for his release. Different versions have different names for the heroic sister, in this version we hear  Donia Inacia but other names are also found such as Doña Alda or Doña Arda. 

Lyrics:
Rey Fernando, Rey Fernando de Toledo y Aragon
y a su ermano, don Alfonso y en prisiones le metio
Oido lo abia su hermana  Donia Alda de Aragon
kitose panos de siempre,  los de la Paskua visitio
fuerase para los Palasios donde Fernando Enreino
- En bueno ora estis , mi ermano  - En eya venga deis vos
- kuando yo era chikita  me ditis un bofeton
y para ke no yorara  me prometistis un don
y ora  ke ya stoy grande   vengo a ke me le deis vos
- Keres Francia, keres Roma,  O Toledo , O Aragon
- No kero sivdad ninguna,  en todas komando yo
lo ke kiero es a mi ermano  ke le sakis de prision
- Manyana, por la manyana te le sakario yo
- No le kero, mas ke aora,  sano y vivo y komo vos
- Malhaya ya las mujueres   las ke tenian razon
por una promesa de ninos  a su ermano sako de prision

Translation:
King Fernando, King Fernando of Toledo and Aragon
and his brother, don Alfonso and into prison he put him
His sister had heard it, Lady Alda of Aragon
she took off her daily clothes, the Passover ones she put on
she went off to the Palaces where Fernando reigned
- In a good hour you are, my brother - May you come in a good hour
- When I was a little girl you gave me a slap
and so that I would not cry you promised me a gift
and now that I am grown I come so you give it to me
- Do you want France, do you want Rome, Or Toledo, Or Aragon
_ I want no city, in all of them I command
what I want is my brother that you take him from prison
- Tomorrow, in the morning I would free him for you
I want him not then but now, healthy and alive and like you
- Cursed be the women those who were right
Because of a childhood promise she freed her brother from prison