| Voy a cantar un corrido
| I'm going to sing a corrido
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| Que anda en toditas las voces
| What is in all the voices
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| De una mujer de la tropa
| From a woman in the troop
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| Que todo el mundo conoce
| that everyone knows
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| En el pueblo de Conejos
| In the rabbit town
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| Por unas calles muy tiestas
| Through some very stiff streets
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| Viene triste y derrotado
| He comes sad and defeated
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| El valiente Antonio Zeta
| The brave Antonio Zeta
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| La cucaracha, la cucaracha
| The cockroach the cockroach
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| Ya no puede caminar
| can no longer walk
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| Porque le falta, porque no tiene
| Because he lacks, because he doesn't have
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| Marihuana que fumar
| marijuana to smoke
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| Iban los tres en silencio
| The three went in silence
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| Sus pensamientos rumiando
| Your ruminating thoughts
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| Mientras el destino ciego
| While blind fate
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| Los hilos iba tramando
| The threads were weaving
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| En los cascos del caballo
| in the horse's hooves
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| Suena el polvo del camino
| The dust of the road sounds
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| Ya se van, llora un cariño
| They're leaving, a love cries
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| Un cariño malogrado
| a lost love
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| Ya el águila voló
| The eagle has already flown
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| Ya el nopal quedó solito
| The nopal was left alone
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| El fruto de tus amores
| The fruit of your love
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| Ya no dista del olvido
| no longer far from oblivion
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| Ya murió la cucaracha
| The cockroach is already dead
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| Ya la llevan a enterrar
| They already take her to bury
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| Entre cuatro zopilotes
| Between four buzzards
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| Y un gato de sacristán
| And a sacristan's cat
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| Y aquí termina el corrido
| And here the corrido ends
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| Que cantó a la cucaracha | who sang to the cockroach |