Lyrics of El Caballo Blanco - José Alfredo Jiménez, Vargas de Tecalitlan

El Caballo Blanco (original)

Éste es el corrido del caballo blanco
que en un día domingo feliz arrancara.
Iba con la mira de llegar al Norte,
habiendo salido de Guadalajara.
Su noble jinete le quito las riendas,
le quito la silla y se fue a puro pelo.
Cruzó como rayo tierras nayaritas
entre cerros verdes y lo azul del cielo.
A paso más lento llego hasta Escuinapa
y por Culiacán ya se andaba quedando,
cuentan que en Los Mochis ya se iba cayendo,
que llevaba todo el hocico sangrando.
Pero lo miraron pasar por Sonora
y el Valle del Yaqui le dio su ternura,
dicen que cojeaba de la pata izquierda
y a pesar de todo siguió su aventura.
Llego hasta Hermosillo, siguio pa' Caborca
y por Mexicali sintió que moría.
Subió paso a paso por La Rumorosa,
llegando a Tijuana con la luz del día.
Cumplida su hazaña, se fue a Rosarito
y no quiso echarse hasta ver Ensenada.
Y éste fue el corrido del caballo blanco,
que salio un domingo de Guadalajara.

(translation)

This is the corrido of the white horse
that on a happy Sunday it would start.
I was going with the aim of reaching the North,
having left Guadalajara.
His noble rider took the reins from him,
he took the chair from her and left bareback.
He crossed Nayarit lands like lightning
between green hills and the blue of the sky.
At a slower pace I reach Escuinapa
and in Culiacán he was already staying,
They say that in Los Mochis it was already falling,
that he was bleeding all over his nose.
But they watched him go through Sonora
and the Yaqui Valley gave him its tenderness,
they say he limped on his left leg
and in spite of everything he continued his adventure from him.
I got to Hermosillo, I continued to Caborca
and for Mexicali he felt that he was dying.
He climbed step by step through La Rumorosa,
arriving in Tijuana with the light of day.
His feat accomplished, he went to Rosarito
and he did not want to lie down until he saw Ensenada.
And this was the corrido of the white horse,
that he left Guadalajara on a Sunday.