| Tomo y obligo, mándese un trago
| I take and I force, send yourself a drink
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| Que hoy necesito el recuerdo matar
| That today I need the memory to kill
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| Sin un amigo, lejos del pago
| Without a friend, far from payment
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| Quiero en su pecho mi pena volcar
| I want my sorrow to pour out on his chest
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| Beba conmigo y si se empaña
| Drink with me and if she gets foggy
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| De vez en cuando mi voz al cantar
| From time to time my voice when singing
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| No es que la llore por que me engaña
| It's not that I cry for her because she cheats on me
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| Yo sé que un hombre no debe llorar
| I know that a man should not cry
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| Si los pastos conversaran
| If the grasses conversed
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| Esa pampa le diría
| That pampa would tell him
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| De que modo la quería
| how she loved her
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| Con que fiebre la adoré
| With what fever I adored her
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| Cuantas veces de rodillas
| How many times on your knees
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| Tembloroso yo me he hincado
| Trembling I have kneeled
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| Bajo el árbol deshojado
| under the leafless tree
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| Donde un día la besé
| Where one day I kissed her
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| Y hoy al verla envilecida
| And today seeing her degraded
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| A otros brazos entregada
| To other arms delivered
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| Fue «pa» mi una puñalada
| She was "pa" me a stab
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| Y de celos me cegué
| And I was blinded by jealousy
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| Y le juro todavía
| And I swear to you still
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| No consigo comprenderme
| I can't understand myself
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| Cómo pude contenerme
| how could i hold back
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| Y ahi nomás no la maté
| And there I just didn't kill her
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| Tomo y obligo, mándese un trago
| I take and I force, send yourself a drink
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| De las mujeres mejor no hay que hablar
| It is better not to talk about women
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| Todas, amigo, dan muy mal pago
| All of them, my friend, pay very poorly
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| Hoy mi experiencia lo puede afirmar
| Today my experience can affirm it
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| Siga un consejo, no se enamore
| Take advice, don't fall in love
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| Y si una vuelta le toca hocicar
| And if a lap has to muzzle
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| Fuerza canejo, sufra y no llore
| Force canejo, suffer and don't cry
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| Que un hombre macho no debe llorar | That a macho man shouldn't cry |