Fangal [English translation]

I saw her that she was coming a bit sideways

tilting, tilting over the edge of the mire

Poor broad who was born in a tenement

with brick floors, reservoir and arbour!

Someone threw away a banana peel she accidentally stepped on

and straight away, when I saw she was already falling on her back

I grabbed her onto me!

I was a fool

because I thought I invented honour then and there

a fool

who picked up a tomato and thought of it a flower;

and remain a fool

when I presume I rescued the love

now that she's gone

she who has beaten me shattered to pains!

You see

I've returned in the grime of living lying about

Damn

since anyway the one I saved cheated on me!

(The "what's his name" said this while the hoe

fooled around, fooled around lost in the mire by now

and he was sipping a dreadful gin

surrounded by tipplers and thugs at the table of some bar...)

If someone threw away a banana, he who was a fool, pushed it

and straight away, when he saw she was already falling on her back

he fell for her!