| Fue mucho mi penar
| It was a lot of my sorrow
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| Andando lejos del pago
| Walking away from payment
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| Tanto correr
| so much running
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| Pa' llegar a ningún lado
| To get anywhere
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| Estaba donde nací
| I was where I was born
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| Lo que buscaba por ahí
| What I was looking for there
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| Es oro la amistad
| friendship is gold
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| Que no se compra ni vende
| That is not bought or sold
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| Sólo se da
| only given
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| Cuando en el pecho se siente
| When in the chest you feel
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| No es algo que se ha de usar
| It is not something to be used
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| Cuando te sirva y nada más
| When I serve you and nothing more
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| Así es como se dan
| This is how they are given
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| En la amistad mis paisanos
| In friendship my countrymen
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| Sus manos son
| his hands are
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| Pan cacho y mate cebado
| Chub bread and primed mate
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| Y la flor de la humildad
| And the flower of humility
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| Suele su rancho perfumar
| His ranch usually perfumes
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| La vida me han prestado
| The life they have lent me
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| Y tengo que devolverla
| And I have to return it
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| Cuando el creador
| when the creator
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| Me llame para la entrega
| call me for delivery
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| Que mis huesos, piel y sal
| That my bones, skin and salt
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| Abonen mi suelo natal
| fertilize my native soil
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| La luna es un terrón
| the moon is a lump
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| Que alumbra con luz prestada
| That shines with borrowed light
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| Solo al cantor
| only to the singer
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| Que canta coplas del alma
| that sings couplets of the soul
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| Le estalla en el corazón
| It explodes in your heart
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| El sol que trepa por su voz
| The sun that climbs through your voice
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| Cantor para cantar
| singer to sing
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| Si nada dicen tus versos
| If your verses say nothing
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| Ay! | Oh! |
| ¿para qué
| for what
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| Vas a callar al silencio?
| Are you going to silence the silence?
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| Si es el silencio un cantor
| If silence is a singer
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| Lleno de duendes en la voz
| Full of goblins in the voice
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| Mi pueblo es un cantor
| My town is a singer
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| Que canta la chacarera
| that the chacarera sings
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| No ha de cantar
| You don't have to sing
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| Lo que muy dentro no sienta
| What deep inside I don't feel
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| Cuando lo quiera escuchar
| when you want to hear it
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| Entre a mi pago sin golpear | Enter my payment without knocking |