Moliendo café [English translation]

When the afternoon fades away

the shadows are reborn

and in the stillness of the coffee plantations

they bring back again

the gloomy sounds, a love song

of an old mill,

which in the lethargy of the night

seems to sing.

Love sorrows, sadness

preoccupy the zambo Manuel in his bitterness.

He spends the night tirelessly

grinding coffee.

When the afternoon fades away

the shadows are reborn

and in the stillness of the coffee plantations

they bring back again

the gloomy sounds, a love song

of an old mill,

which in the lethargy of the night

seems to sing.