| Me la navego en la sierra
| I navigate it in the mountains
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| Todita la temporada
| all season
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| Se que me rifo la vida
| I know that I raffle my life
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| Regando la hierva mala
| Watering the weed
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| Pero se siente bonito
| but it feels nice
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| Cuando recibes la lana
| when you receive the wool
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| Sembrando maíz y fríjol
| Planting corn and beans
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| Nunca junte ningún centavo
| I never collected any penny
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| De sol a sol me miraban
| From sunrise to sunset they looked at me
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| Agarrado del arado
| caught by the plow
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| Me di cuenta que ser pobre
| I realized that being poor
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| Era trabajar a honrado
| It was to work honestly
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| Varios plantíos de hierva
| Several grass plantations
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| Tengo por toda la sierra
| I have all over the mountains
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| Unos fumiga el boludo
| Some fumigate the boludo
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| Pero los grandes me quedan
| But the big ones fit me
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| Y cuando miro las colas
| And when I look at the queues
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| Dólares se me revelan
| Dollars are revealed to me
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| Varias veces me han topado
| I have been bumped into several times
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| Los guachos en el camino
| The guachos on the road
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| Pero me miran bordón
| But they look at me
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| Y dicen pobre viejillo
| And they say poor old man
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| No se imaginan que yo
| They do not imagine that I
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| Para mentir tengo estilo
| To lie I have style
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| Esa gente de la sierra
| Those people from the mountains
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| No entiende ni entenderá
| He does not understand and will not understand
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| Los guachos casi los matan
| The guachos almost killed them
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| Y ellos vuelven a sembrar
| And they sow again
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| No dejan ir temporadas
| They don't let go of seasons
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| Cada año levantan mas
| Every year they raise more
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| La cruzan pa el extranjero
| They cross it for the foreigner
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| Por diferentes fronteras
| across different borders
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| Los guachos no la detectan
| The guachos do not detect it
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| Ni se le acercan siquiera
| They don't even come close
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| Será que va bien clavada
| It will be that she is well nailed
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| O será que alguien coopera
| Or will someone cooperate
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| El verde me a esperanza
| The green gives me hope
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| Como lo dice paulino
| As Pauline says
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| Los dólares y la hierva
| The dollars and the grass
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| Son verde eso es cierto amigos
| They are green that's true friends
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| La sierra es una fortuna
| The saw is a fortune
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| Pero si siembras lo fino | But if you sow the fine |