Translation of the song lyrics La Botas del Charro - José Alfredo Jiménez

La Botas del Charro (original)

Cuánto tiempo busque tu cariño
Y andube borracho
Borracho perdido
De tanto quererte
Yo me acuerdo que estaba chiquillo
Y no iba a la escuela
Por que no aguantaba
Seis horas sin verte
Siempre juntos;
creció mi cariño
Y un día me gritastes
«¡Me gustan los hombres
Me aburren los niños!»
Y ahi te voy, a quebrar mi destino
Y en una cantina
Cambié mis canicas
Por copas de vino
Qué coraje me daba conmigo:
No tenia bigotes
Ni traia pistolas
Ni andaba a caballo
Qué coraje me daba conmigo:
Yo andaba descalzo
Y a ti te gustaban
Las botas de charro
Fui dejando que el tiempo pasara
Luché contra todo
Sentí que los años
Caían en mi espalda
Y una noche, que no te esperaba
Rompiste el silencio
Y le distes un beso
A mi boca cerrada
No te pude decir que te fueras
Ni quise que vieras
Que estube escribiendo
Mil veces tu nombre
Sólo se que te puse en mis brazos;
Dejé que mi orgullo
Se hiciera pedazos
Al fin ya era un hombre
Qué coraje me daba conmigo:
No tenia bigotes
Ni traia pistolas
Ni andaba a caballo
Qué coraje me daba conmigo:
Yo andaba descalzo
Y a ti te gustaban
Las botas de charro

La Botas del Charro (translation)

How long I looked for your love
And I was drunk
lost drunk
from loving you so much
I remember I was a kid
And I didn't go to school
Why couldn't I hold on?
six hours without seeing you
Always together;
my love grew
And one day you yelled at me
"I like men
Children bore me!”
And there I go, to break my destiny
and in a canteen
I changed my marbles
by glasses of wine
What courage he gave me with myself:
I didn't have mustaches
I didn't even bring pistols
I didn't even ride a horse
What courage he gave me with myself:
I was barefoot
and you liked them
The charro boots
I was letting time pass
I fought against everything
I felt that the years
They fell on my back
And one night, I wasn't expecting you
you broke the silence
and you gave him a kiss
to my closed mouth
I couldn't tell you to leave
I didn't want you to see
What was I writing?
a thousand times your name
I only know that I put you in my arms;
I let my pride
to pieces
At last he was a man
What courage he gave me with myself:
I didn't have mustaches
I didn't even bring pistols
I didn't even ride a horse
What courage he gave me with myself:
I was barefoot
and you liked them
The charro boots