The red rose - La rosa roja

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#Cuban popular #music classics for the first time in English.

LA ROSA ROJA (THE RED ROSE)
(Words & Music by Óscar Hernández)

On a cold winter morning
while heading to your door
a rose out of season
I saw by the porch
I wanted to give you
this token of love
so I plucked the flower
but I felt the thorns, the thorns
I could pluck the flower
but I felt the thorns

The drops of my blood spread
all over my fingers
as red as the petals
of that charming rose
I had the conviction
that joys and afflictions
round each other off
Thus I feel deep inside about our true love
The same as two lovers
feel joys and afflictions
a rose has the thorns

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CUBAN SONGBOOK - New English lyrics for Cuban classic #songs - A useful resource for interested musicians

Part 1: New English lyrics to 255 selected pages from the 19th Century to the 1960's
https://cubansongbook.blogspot.com/2022/03/cuban-songbook-useful-resource-for.html

Part 2: Contemporary Songwriters

Section A: New English lyrics to 50 selected pages written by Silvio Rodríguez

Section B: New English lyrics to 50 selected pages written by Pablo Milanés

Section C: New English lyrics to 50 selected pages written by Various Songwriters