La Caponera

THE CAPONERA

Lyrics: Margarita Rosa de Francisco
Music: Josefina Severino

I come to sing to the people if there's a cockfight and a good fair
if there's a cockfight and a good fair I come to sing to the people.

Because I lose control
that's what the bad tongues say
but I don't buy into gossip
because I am The Caponera.

I stir things up wherever I go and bring luck to those I look at,
and bring luck to those I look at I stir things up wherever I go.

I surrender to desires
because I am pure fire
like the flame that ignites
that ignites in any terrain.

They call me The Caponera because I condemn myself to love,
because I condemn myself to love they call me The Caponera.

If they give me spurs
I fight worse than a rooster
because I have a whole lineage
for the bad and the good.

My destiny is to be beautiful to break hearts,
to break hearts my destiny is to be beautiful.

As they made me this way
I bless this gift.
Despite being a hen
I have more feathers than a rooster.
Now I bid you farewell
and thank you from the bottom of my heart
even though I am flesh and bone
Caponera does not back down.