Translation of the song Donna Lee artist Leo Masliah

Yo nunca pude conocer a Donna Lee

I have never met Donna Lee

ni se que tenía que ver con Charlie Parker

and I don't know what she had to do with Charlie Parker

pero pienso que si dio tanto que hablar

but I think that if she gave so much for talking

seguro que algúna virtud debía tener,

she surely had some virtue,

una vasta inteligencia, o quizás valores sólidos,

a wide intelligence, or maybe solid values,

una moralidad sin tacha, una conducta

a clean morality, a behaviour

digna de ser tomada como guía para la juventud.

that deserves to be taken as a guide for the youth.

Pero sólamente estoy especulando, yo no la conocí.

But I'm only speculating, I didn't meet her.

Tal vez no debería estar hablando

Maybe I shouldn't be talking

de este modo de gente que yo no conozco,

this way about people that I don't know,

pero Donna Lee me inquieta mucho,

but Donna Lee worries me a lot,

no puedo contener la curiosidad.

I can't contain the curiosity.

Yo creo que debía ser una mujer bastante complicada

I believe that she had to be a very complicated woman

si nos guiamos por la melodía que le hizo Charlie Parker,

if we guide by the melody that Charlie Parker did to her,

pobre tipo, las que le habrá hecho Donna Lee.

poor guy, the things Donna Lee have done to him.

Yo nunca pude conocer a Donna Lee

I have never met Donna Lee

pero esta canción me quema la cabeza

but this song burns my head

y no se si a Donna Lee le habrá gustado

and I don't know if Donna Lee liked it

ni sé tampoco si la escuchó;

neither if she listened to it;

No se si en una casa de salud de Nueva York

I don't know if in a New York old's people home

hay una pobre viejita que le canta a su enfermera

there's a poor old woman who sings to her nurse

Mira que tonada que hace mucho tiempo

Hear the tune that long time ago

Charlie Parker me hizo para mí.

Charlie Parker done for me