| Que el mundo fue y será
| That the world was and will be
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| Una porquería, ya lo sé
| A piece of crap, I already know
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| En el quinientos seis
| In the five hundred six
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| Y en el dos mil, también
| And in two thousand, too
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| Que siempre ha habido chorros
| That there have always been jets
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| Maquiavelos y estafaos
| Machiavelli and swindlers
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| Contentos y amargaos
| happy and bitter
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| Varones y dublés
| Men and dubles
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| Pero que el siglo veinte
| But that the twentieth century
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| Es un despliegue
| It's a deployment
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| De maldá insolente
| Of evil insolent
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| Ya no hay quien lo niegue
| There is no longer anyone who denies it
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| Vivimos revolcaos en un merengue
| We live wallowing in a meringue
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| Y en el mismo lodo
| And in the same mud
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| Todos manoseaos
| Everybody grope
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| Hoy resulta que es lo mismo
| Today it turns out it's the same
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| Ser derecho que traidor
| Being right than traitor
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| Ignorante, sabio, chorro
| ignorant, wise, squirt
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| Generoso o estafador
| Generous or swindler
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| ¡Todo es igual!
| Everything is the same!
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| ¡Nada es mejor!
| Nothing is better!
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| Lo mismo un burro
| the same a donkey
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| Que un gran profesor
| what a great teacher
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| No hay aplazaos ni escalafón
| There are no postponements or steps
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| Los ignorantes nos han igualao
| The ignorant have equaled us
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| Si uno vive en la impostura
| If one lives in imposture
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| Y otro roba en su ambición
| And another steals in his ambition
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| Da lo mismo que sea cura
| It doesn't matter if it's a cure
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| Colchonero, Rey de Bastos
| Mattress Maker, King of Wands
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| Caradura o polizón
| Cheeky or stowaway
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| ¡Qué falta de respeto
| what a lack of respect
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| Qué atropello a la razón!
| What an outrage to reason!
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| Cualquiera es un señor
| Anyone is a gentleman
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| Cualquiera es un ladrón
| Anyone is a thief
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| Mezclao con Stavisky
| Mix with Stavisky
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| Va Don Bosco y La Mignon
| Goes Don Bosco and La Mignon
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| Don Chicho y Napoleón
| Don Chicho and Napoleon
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| Carnera y San Martín
| Carnera and San Martin
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| Igual que en la vidriera
| Just like in the window
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| Irrespetuosa
| disrespectful
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| De los cambalaches
| of the exchanges
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| Se ha mezclao la vida
| life has been mixed
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| Y herida por un sable sin remache
| And wounded by a saber without a rivet
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| Ves llorar La Biblia
| You see the Bible cry
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| Junto a un calefón
| Next to a heater
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| Siglo veinte, cambalache
| Twentieth century, exchange
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| Problemático y febril
| troublesome and feverish
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| El que no llora no mama
| He who does not cry does not breastfeed
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| Y el que no afana es un gil
| And the one who does not strive is a gil
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| Dale, nomás
| Come on, just
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| Dale, que va
| Come on, what's up?
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| Que allá en el Horno
| that there in the oven
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| Nos vamo' a encontrar
| We are going to meet
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| No pienses más, sentate a un lao
| Don't think anymore, sit on one side
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| Que a nadie importa si naciste honrao
| That nobody cares if you were born honorable
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| Es lo mismo el que labura
| It is the same who works
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| Noche y día como un buey
| Night and day like an ox
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| Que el que vive de los otros
| That the one who lives from the others
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| Que el que mata, que el que cura
| That the one who kills, that the one who heals
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| O está fuera de la ley | Or he is outlaw |