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Source text in English

Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I'd been picking.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playing with a can that he was kicking.
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone's frying chicken.
And Lord, it took me back to something that I'd lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way.

On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.

In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughing little girl that he was swinging.
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the songs they were singing.
Then I headed down the street,
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing,
And it echoed through the canyon
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.

There were 10 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase.

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Translations submitted for each source text segment are listed below. Segments have had surrounding punctuation stripped, and the resulting identical segments have been grouped together, so each listed translation should differ, but the difference may be subtle (eg. internal punctuation or diacritics).

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Source text segment #9

Then I headed down the street,
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing,
And it echoed through the canyon
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.
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"Dio" doesn´t have an accent...

Apart from the spelling mistake, to me the translation sounds somehow more informal than the original text.
Y partí, calle abajo.
En algún rincón lejano tañía solitaria una campana.
Su eco rebotaba en el barranco,
sueño de ayer ya sin mañana.
Uputih se niz ulicu zatim,
a udarac usamljenog zvona
u dolini poput snova nestalih jučer
odjeknuo je daleko negdje.
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De ahí mientras caminaba en la calle, por algún lugar sonaba una campana solitaria, Y dió un eco por el cañón Como los sueños del ayer que desaparecían.
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Uputih se niz ulicu zatim,
a udarac usamljenog zvona
u dolini poput snova nestalih jučer
odjeknuo je daleko negdje.

Translations of this segment (10 total; 10 unique)

ثم توجهت مكملا طريقي وفي مكان ما بعيد كان هناك جرسا وحيدا يدق، وتردد صداه في كافة أرجاء الوادي مثل أحلام الأمس المتلاشية
ثم اتجهت نزولا عبر الشارع وفي مكان ما بعيد جدا كان جرس وحيد يدق يتردد صداه عبر الوهاد مثل أحلام الأمس المتبخرة
ثم مضيت نزولاً في الشارع وجرسٌ يتيم يقرع هنالك في البعيد ليتردد صداه عبر الوادي العميق كوقْعِ أحلام الأمس المتلاشية
ثم توجهت في الشارع, وبعيداً في مكان ما, كان هنالك جرس يرن في عزلة بمفرده, فتردد صدى صوته خلال الوادي العميق مثل أحلام الأمس المتلاشية
ثم مضيت في الشارع وفي مكان ما بعيد، يرن جرس وحيد ويتردد صداه في ارجاء الوادي مثل أحلام الامس المتوارية
سرت في دربي مشيا و من بعيد رن جرسٌ وحيدٌ ينذقُّ صداه في الوادي كأحلام أمسٍ تتلاشى
ثم اتخذت إلي آخر الطريق صوبا "و من مكان ناء سمعت جرسا" متفردا "كان له عبر الوادي الضيق صدى "و كان صداه كحلم الأمس متلاشيا
ثم توجهت الى الشارع و من مكان ما بعيد كان يرن جرس وحيد و دوى صوته خلال الوادي الضيق كأحلام الأمس المختفية
ثم توجهتُ نحو الشارع، وفي مكان بعيد كان هناك جرسا وحيدا يدق، وتردد صداه خلال الوادي كأحلام الأمس المتلاشية
بعدها سرت بطول الشارع، ومن بعيد كان هناك جرس وحيد يقرع، وتردد صداه عبر الوادي كأحلام الأمس المتلاشيات
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