| Me dijo mercedes, me dijo mercedes
| he told me mercedes, he told me mercedes
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| Me dijo mercedes soy una persona buena
| Mercedes told me I'm a good person
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| Yo que tengo la virtud de conocer a mercedes
| I who have the virtue of knowing Mercedes
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| Le dije mercedes vamonos pa’cartagena
| I told him, Mercedes, let's go to Cartagena
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| Ado no me voy contigo
| ado I'm not going with you
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| Ado me da mucna pena
| Ado makes me feel sorry
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| Porque tu vives apenado de tu mujer y de tus hijos
| Because you live sorry for your wife and your children
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| Soy un bachiller para ti no es nada
| I'm a bachelor for you it's nothing
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| Yo tengo experiencia mercedes soy profesor
| I have experience Mercedes I am a teacher
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| Y por elogiarte por ti soy compositor
| And for praising you for you I am a composer
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| Ya veras mercedes tienes vida asegurada
| You'll see, Mercedes, you have a guaranteed life
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| Mucho puedo ser amada, no me lo sigas diciendo
| I can be loved a lot, don't keep telling me
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| No me entrego ni me vendo, ado
| I do not give myself nor do I sell myself, I adore
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| Del rancho salgo casada
| I leave the ranch married
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| Te brindo mercedes la oportunidad
| I give you mercedes the opportunity
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| De pasear en coche la costa del mar caribe
| To drive the coast of the Caribbean Sea
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| La popa, la boquilla yo te llevo a conocer
| The stern, the mouthpiece I'll take you to know
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| Para la luna de miel dejamo’el hotel caribe
| For the honeymoon we left the Caribbean hotel
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| Ayer dijiste te quiero
| Yesterday you said I love you
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| Hoy me pides que te olvide
| Today you ask me to forget you
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| Despues que matas al tigre merce
| After you kill the merce tiger
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| Le sales corriendo al cuero | you run to the leather |