| Nadie salió a despedirme
| No one came out to say goodbye
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| Cuando me fui de la estancia
| When I left the ranch
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| Solamente el ovejero, un perro nomás
| Only the shepherd, just a dog
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| Cosas que pasan
| Things that happen
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| El asunto, una zoncera
| The matter, a fool
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| Un simple cambio de palabras
| A simple change of words
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| Y el olvido de un mocoso
| And the forgetfulness of a brat
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| Del que puedo ser su tata
| of which I can be your tata
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| Y yo que no aguanto pulgas
| And I can't stand fleas
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| A pesar de mi ignorancia
| despite my ignorance
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| Ya no mas pedí las cuentas
| I no longer asked for the accounts
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| Sin importarme de nada
| without caring about anything
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| No hubiera pasado esto
| this would not have happened
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| Si el padre no se marchara
| If the father did not leave
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| Pero los patrones mueren
| But the bosses die
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| Y después los hijos mandan
| And then the children rule
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| Y hasta parece mentira
| And it even seems like a lie
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| Pero es cosa señalada
| But it is a marked thing
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| Que de una sangre pareja
| That of a blood partner
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| Salga la cría cambiada
| Get out the changed brood
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| Los treinta años al servicio
| Thirty years in service
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| Pal mozo no fueron nada
| Pal lad they were nothing
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| Se olvido mil cosas buenas
| I forgot a thousand good things
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| Por una que salió mala
| For one that went bad
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| Yo me había aquerenciao
| I had acquiesced
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| Nunca conocí otra casa
| I never knew another house
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| Que apegado a las costumbres
| that attached to the customs
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| Me hallaba en aquella estancia
| I was in that room
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| Sí hasta parece mentira
| Yes, it even seems like a lie
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| Mocoso sin sombra e barba
| Brat without shadow and beard
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| Que de guricito andaba
| What a little guy he was
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| Prendido de mis bombachas
| Caught up in my panties
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| Por él, le quité a unos teros
| For him, I took from some teros
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| Dos pichoncitos, malaya!
| Two pigeons, Malay!
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| Y otra vez, nunca había bajao un nido
| And again, I had never lowered a nest
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| Y por él gatié las ramas
| And for him I gatié the branches
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| Cuando ya se hizo muchacho
| When he became a boy
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| Yo le amansé el malacara
| I tamed the malacara
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| Y se lo entregué de riendas
| And I handed it over to him
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| Pa que él solo lo enfrenara
| So that he would only face it
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| Tenía un lazo trenzao
| He had a braided bow
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| Que gané en una domada
| That I won in a dressage
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| Pal santo se lo osequié
| Pal santo I gave it to him
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| Ya que siempre lo admiraba
| Since he always admired him
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| Y la única vez que El patrón
| And the only time that the boss
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| Me pegó una levantada
| He hit me up
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| Fue por cargarme las culpas
| It was for taking the blame
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| Que a él le hubieran sido caras
| That they would have been expensive for him
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| Zonceras, cosas del campo
| Zonceras, things of the field
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| La tranquera mal cerrada
| The poorly closed gate
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| Y el terneraje e plantel
| And the calf and campus
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| Que se sale de las casas
| that leaves the houses
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| Y eso, pal finao patrón
| And that, fine patron
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| Era cosa delicada
| It was a delicate thing
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| Y bueno, pa que acordarme
| And well, why remember
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| De una época pasada
| from a bygone era
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| Me dije pa mis adentros
| I said to myself
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| Todo eso no vale nada
| all that is worth nothing
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| Sin mirarnos, arreglamos
| Without looking at each other, we fix
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| Metí en el cinto la plata
| I put the money in the belt
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| Le estiré pa despedirme mi mano
| I stretched out my hand to say goodbye
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| Pa que apretara
| to squeeze
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| Y me la dejó tendida
| And he left her lying on me
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| Cosa que yo no esperaba
| thing that I did not expect
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| Porque ese mozo no sabe
| Because that boy doesn't know
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| Si un día ha de hacerle falta…
| If one day you need it...
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| Tranqueando me fui hasta el catre
| Tranqueando I went to the cot
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| Alcé un atado que dejara
| I picked up a bundle that left
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| Y me rumbié pal palenque
| And I went to palenque
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| Echándome atrás el ala
| Throwing back my wing
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| Ensillé, gané el camino
| I saddled up, I won the way
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| Pegué la ultima mirada
| I took the last look
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| Al monte, al galpón, los bretes
| To the mountain, to the shed, the bretes
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| El molino, las aguadas
| The mill, the waterholes
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| De arriba abrí la tranquera
| From above I opened the gate
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| Eche el pañuelo a la espalda
| Throw the scarf behind your back
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| Por costumbre, prendí un negro
| Out of habit, I lit a black
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| Talonié mi moro Pampa
| I talonié my Moor Pampa
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| Y ya me largué al galope
| And I already galloped away
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| Chiflando como si nada
| Whistling like nothing
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| Nadie salió a despedirme
| No one came out to say goodbye
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| Cuando me fui de la estancia
| When I left the ranch
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| Solamente el ovejero, un perro nomás
| Only the shepherd, just a dog
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| Cosas que pasan | Things that happen |