Poderoso caballero es don dinero in english

Francisco de Quevedo - Poderoso Caballero es don Dinero ...

Over kings and priests and scholars

Rules the mighty Lord of Dollars.

 

Mother, unto gold I yield me,

He and I are ardent lovers;

Pure affection now discovers

How his sunny rays shall shield me!

For a trifle more or less

All his power will confess,

Over kings and priests and scholars

Rules the mighty Lord of Dollars.

 

In the Indies did they nurse him,

While the world stood round admiring;

And in Spain was his expiring;

And in Genoa did they hearse him;

And the ugliest at his side

Shines with all of beauty's pride;

Over kings and priests awl scholars

Rules the mighty Lord of Dollars.

 

He's a gallant, he's a winner,

Black or white be his complexion;

He is brave without correction

As a Moor or Christian sinner.

He makes cross and medal bright,

And he smashes laws of right,—

Over kings and priests and scholars

Rules the mighty Lord of Dollars.

 

Noble are his proud ancestors

For his blood-veins are English translation of 'poderoso caballero es don dinero' SEB