Oh, city of the gypsies! Who could see you and not remember you? City of musk and sorrow, City of cinnamon towers. Oh, city of the gypsies! Corners hung with flags. Put your green lights out, The Civil Guard is coming! The city, free of fear, Was multiplying doors. Forty Civil guardsmen Pour through to sack and burn. Flight of long screams rose from the weathercocks. Sabre slashed the breezes trampled under hoof. Through the half-lit streets Old gypsy women flee With their sleepy horses And enormous jars of coins. Up the steep streets climbed the sinister capes, Leaving behind them brief whirlwinds of shears. Oh, city of the gypsies! The Civil guardsmen ride away Through a tunnel of silence While the flames encircle you.