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* The original "Macarena" was in Spanish. A popular version exists with English lyrics.
** Also "Aserejé" ("The Ketchup Song"), both by Spanish group Las Ketchup.
* Nena's "99 Red Balloons" is an English-language cover of her own German-language song "99 Luftballoons". The English release 45 had the German version as the [[B
** Oddly, Goldfinger's cover, while the rest of the song is in English, uses the German fourth verse, which was translated into the English third verse, so one verse ends up being [[Second Verse Curse|completely left out]]. The fourth verse contains a line about jet pilots comparing themselves to Captain Kirk, so it could have been left out for copyright reasons.
* Argentinean bands Renacer and Tren Loco, who have covered several English-language songs in Spanish, such as ''[[Judas Priest|Metal Gods]]'', ''[[Megadeth|Reckoning Day]]'' and ''[[Helloween|March of Time]]'' in the case of the former, and ''[[Judas Priest|The Hellion/Electric Eye]]'' and ''[[Megadeth|Train of Consequences]]'' in the case of the latter.
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* For [[The Pixies]] cover of "Evil Hearted You", originally by Graham Gouldman but [[Covered Up]] by [[The Yardbirds]], Black Francis translated the lyrics into Spanish. Slightly less clumsy than his regular Spanish, too.
* Avril Lavigne covered her song "Girlfriend" with the chorus translated to several other languages.
* Cantonese anime dubs will occasionally come with a dubbed version of the opening theme. Examples include ''[[Doraemon]]'', ''
** In some cases, like their treatment of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'''s ''Melissa'', it's more like they [[Cover Changes the Meaning|rewrote the lyrics]].
* German singer Juliane Werding has done a number of translated covers, including [[The Band]]'s ''The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'' (''Am Tag, als Conny Kramer starb''), [[Mike Oldfield]]'s ''Moonlight Shadow'' (''Nacht voll Schatten''), and [[Nik Kershaw]]'s ''Wouldn’t It Be Good'' (''Sonne auf der Haut'')
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* Freestyle artist Angelina did an English cover of Paradisio's "Bailando", as well as in the original Spanish.
* "Around the World" (2000) by German group ATC is an English cover of "Pesenka" (1998) by Russian group Ruki Vverkh.
* According to [[wikipedia:Just a Gigolo
* ''[[Wanted]]'' is directed by a Russian. Thus the end credits song "The Little Things", by [[Danny Elfman]], received [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K047goQGGq4 a Russian version], also sung by Elfman.
* "The Girl From Ipanema" (also a case of [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]).
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