| Que importa si fue primero
| What does it matter if it was first
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| Ella es mi vida y así la quiero
| She is my life and I love her that way
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| Busque, busque otro consuelo
| Look, look for another consolation
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| Lejos muy lejos de mi suelo
| Far far away from my ground
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| Que importa si fue primero
| What does it matter if she was first
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| Ella es mi vida y así la quiero
| She is my life and I love her that way
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| Busque, busque otro consuelo
| Look, look for another consolation
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| Lejos muy lejos de mi suelo
| Far far away from my ground
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| Si usted le enseñó a besar
| If you taught him to kiss
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| Si de amor la hizo llorar
| If she of love she made her cry
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| Porqué hubo de abandonar
| Why did she have to leave?
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| Si pensaba regresar
| If she thought to return
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| Cómo dejó el campesino la tierra, sin laborar
| How the peasant left the land, without working
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| Media vuelta dio en su giro, no encontró frutos al llegar
| Half a turn he gave in his turn, he found no fruit when he arrived
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| Pues nunca se imaginó
| Well, he never imagined
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| Que un machete y el sudor
| Than a machete and sweat
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| De un hombre que por amor
| Of a man who for love
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| Diera vida sin dolor
| Give life without pain
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| Amigo llegué a pensar que tal vez jamás ella me mirara
| Friend I came to think that maybe she would never look at me
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| Desecho le dejó el pecho, ay por poco no se me para
| Waste left her chest, oh almost she didn't stop me
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| Pero animos yo le di me esforcé y lo conseguí
| But cheer up, I gave him an effort and I got it
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| Poco a poco levanté la familia que ve usted
| Little by little I raised the family that you see
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| Que importa si fue primero
| What does it matter if she was first
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| Ella es mi vida y así la quiero
| She is my life and I love her that way
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| Pero que mire que es que usted la abandonó
| But look what it is that you abandoned her
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| Recuerde amigo cuantas veces le falló
| Remember friend how many times she failed you
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| Que importa si fue primero
| What does it matter if she was first
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| Ella es mi vida y así la quiero
| She is my life and I love her that way
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| Mire a su cuarta y párese en ella
| Look at your fourth of it and stand on it
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| Depronto sin saber de donde le parten centellas
| Suddenly without knowing where the sparks start from
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| Que importa si fue primero
| What does it matter if she was first
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| Ella es mi vida y así la quiero
| She is my life and I love her that way
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| Que quiere usted señor
| what do you want sir
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| Que busca usted señor, señor
| That she is looking for you sir, sir
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| Que importa si fue primero
| What does it matter if she was first
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| Ella es mi vida y así la quiero
| She is my life and I love her that way
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| Pero no quiere, no quiere comprender
| But she doesn't want, she doesn't want to understand
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| Si no sembró, que piensa recoger
| If she didn't sow, what does she plan to reap?
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| La quiero, la quiero, la quiero, la quiero, la quiero
| I love her, I love her, I love her, I love her, I love her
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| (Ella es mi vida y así la quiero)
| (She is my life and I love her that way)
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| Por esa morena linda es que yo me
| It's because of that pretty brunette that I
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| (Ella es mi vida y así la quiero)
| (She is my life and I love her that way)
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| Ella es mi amor y ella es mi consuelo
| She is my love and she is my consolation
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| (Ella es mi vida y así la quiero)
| (She is my life and I love her that way)
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| Usted la perdió
| you lost her
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| (Primero pa' que)
| (First why)
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| Cómo?
| How?
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| (Primero pa' que)
| (First why)
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| Ayayay!
| Ay ay ay!
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| (Primero pa' que)
| (First why)
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| Que qué?
| What what?
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| (Primero pa' que)
| (First why)
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| No me la piense así todo el año entero
| Don't think of her like that all year long
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| (Ella es mi vida y así la quiero)
| (She is my life and I love her that way)
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| Amo y señor, yo soy su dueño
| Master and lord, I am your owner
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| (Ella es mi vida y así la quiero) | (She is my life and I love her that way) |