Traducción de la letra de la canción King Kong - Tom Waits

King Kong (original)

They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the king
They came to his island
And they brought her with them
They wanted to get his picture
But they were surprised
By his enormous size
And when he saw the woman
He took her without question
Because after all
He was the king
And he loved the woman
He loved the way she looked
And she wouldn’t stop screaming
But he loved the woman
And he fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex
And it was a bloody battle
But he fought it for his woman
And he climbed up a mountain
And he looked around
Some kind of forest
With all these dinosaurs
And he stripped his woman
He stripped her bare
But there was a pterodactyl
There
And then a hero
Came and took his woman
And they fell off the mountain
Into some water
And then later
He came looking for his woman
But they were waiting
And they threw a bomb
And they tied him
And took him across the ocean
And they chained him
And put him in the show
And when he saw his woman
He broke loose
And everyone fled in terror
And he was looking for her
And he overtook a train
And he was looking in the street
And then he found her in her apartment
And he climbed up
The Empire State Building
It was like a phallic symbol
And he took his woman
To the top of that towering temple
And he climbed up and looked around
Some kind of city
With all those skyscrapers
And all the cars
Just him and his screaming woman
And they were finally alone
He loved his woman
You could see it in his eyes
His great big eyes
He loved his woman
From the moment that he saw her
He was all choked up inside
But when the airplanes came
He was soon to die
But he hung on long enough to set his woman down
And make sure that she was safe
And as the bullets pierced
He looked at her so sincere
Before he fell
Because he loved his woman
And they shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the king
Who killed the monkey
'twas beauty that killed the beast
And Willis O’Brien died
A tragic death
There wasn’t much
That he had left
And Ray Harryhousen said
That when Willis died
That’s when the king was really dead
They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the king

(traducción)

lo derribaron
lo derribaron
Pensaron que era un monstruo
Pero él era el rey
Llegaron a su isla
Y la trajeron con ellos
Querían obtener su foto
pero se sorprendieron
Por su enorme tamaño
Y cuando vio a la mujer
Él la tomó sin dudar
porque después de todo
el era el rey
Y amaba a la mujer
Le encantaba la forma en que se veía
Y ella no dejaba de gritar
Pero él amaba a la mujer
Y luchó contra un Tiranosaurio Rex
Y fue una batalla sangrienta
Pero luchó por su mujer
Y subió a una montaña
Y miró a su alrededor
Una especie de bosque
Con todos estos dinosaurios
Y desnudó a su mujer
Él la desnudó
Pero había un pterodáctilo
Allá
Y luego un héroe
Vino y se llevó a su mujer
Y se cayeron de la montaña
en un poco de agua
y luego mas tarde
Vino buscando a su mujer
pero estaban esperando
Y tiraron una bomba
y lo amarraron
Y lo llevó a través del océano
y lo encadenaron
Y ponerlo en el show
Y cuando vio a su mujer
se soltó
Y todos huyeron aterrorizados
y el la buscaba
Y adelantó un tren
Y estaba mirando en la calle
Y luego la encontró en su apartamento.
Y se subió
El edificio Empire State
Era como un símbolo fálico
Y se llevó a su mujer
A la cima de ese imponente templo
Y se subió y miró a su alrededor
Algún tipo de ciudad
Con todos esos rascacielos
Y todos los autos
Solo él y su mujer que grita
Y finalmente estaban solos
El amaba a su mujer
Podías verlo en sus ojos
Sus grandes ojos grandes
El amaba a su mujer
Desde el momento en que la vio
Estaba todo ahogado por dentro
Pero cuando llegaron los aviones
pronto iba a morir
Pero aguantó lo suficiente para dejar a su mujer abajo
Y asegurarse de que ella estaba a salvo
Y como las balas perforaron
El la miro tan sincero
Antes de que cayera
Porque amaba a su mujer
Y lo derribaron
Pensaron que era un monstruo
Pero él era el rey
quien mato al mono
Fue la belleza la que mató a la bestia.
Y Willis O'Brien murió
Una muerte trágica
no habia mucho
Que se había ido
Y Ray Harryhousen dijo
Que cuando Willis murió
Fue entonces cuando el rey estaba realmente muerto.
lo derribaron
lo derribaron
Pensaron que era un monstruo
Pero él era el rey