hi, Herbert,

I was a young woman highly born (de casa alta, from a high house)
I did not knew about suffering
But because I came to know you
You put me in the condition of a servant maid

Ladino is the old spanish still spoken by the jews in east mediterranean 
countries whose ascendents had to abandon Spain in 1492... a very sad 
part of Spain's history.

Saludos from Barcelona

Manolo Laguillo

Herbert Ward wrote:

>Here is some text from an old Sephardic song in the Ladino
>language.  It looks like Spanish, but the on-line
>Spanish-to-English translators (and my high school
>Spanish skills) do not handle it.
>
>        Esmirna
>Yo era nina de caza alta
>No savia de sufrir
>Por caer con ti berbante
>Me metites a servir
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