| ¡Óigale a la moza! | Listen to the girl! |
| ¿Yorás porque el gaucho
| Yoras because the gaucho
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| Se fue pa’los pagos de ande no se güelve
| He left for the payments from where he does not return
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| Y has quedado solita como oveja guacha
| And you've been left alone like a sheep
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| Que no tiene un perro que por ella vele?
| Doesn't she have a dog to watch over her?
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| No siento tu pena, que ha de ser fingida
| I don't feel your pain, that it has to be faked
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| Siento las del gaucho que se jué pa’siempre
| I feel the feelings of the gaucho who played forever
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| Si se le hizo cierto que vos lo querías
| If it was true that you wanted it
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| Y que en tus pupilas iba él sólo a verse
| And that in your pupils he would only see himself
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| Porque si jué ansina, cuando hasta su fosa
| Because if I played anxious, when even his grave
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| De tus risas locas los ecos le lleguen
| From your crazy laughter the echoes reach him
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| Sentirá que el yelo de tu olvido infame
| He will feel that the blindness of your infamous oblivion
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| Más frío es que el yelo de la mesma muerte
| Colder is than the veil of death itself
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| Y sepa por boca de alguna luz mala
| And know by the mouth of some bad light
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| Que ya andás buscando que alguien te consuele
| That you are already looking for someone to comfort you
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| Pa' tenerlo’e Cristo como a él lo has tenido
| To have Christ as you have had him
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| Haciendo lo que hacen tuitas las mujeres…
| Doing what women tweet...
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| Y al verse dentro’el hoyo, maniao y sin daga
| And when he saw himself inside the hole, maniao and without a dagger
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| Sin poder yamarte y anhelando al pepe
| Without being able to love you and longing for Pepe
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| La luz de unos ojos pa’sus ojos ciegos
| The light of some eyes for their blind eyes
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| Y el calor de un seno pa’su helada frente
| And the heat of a breast for her icy forehead
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| Sentirá la rabia, desatada y loca
| Will feel the rage, unleashed and mad
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| Del bagual arisco sujeto al palenque
| From the surly bagual subject to the palenque
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| Cuando las cacharpas le aprietan el lomo
| When the cacharpas squeeze his back
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| Y ni la manea, ni el bozal se ruempen
| And neither the manea, nor the muzzle break
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| ¡Óigale a la moza!, ¿Yoras porque el gaucho | Listen to the girl! Are you praying because the gaucho |
| Se fue pa’los pagos de ande no se güelve
| He left for the payments from where he does not return
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| Y has quedado solita, como oveja guacha
| And you're left alone, like a guacha sheep
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| Que no tiene un perro que por ella vele?
| Doesn't she have a dog to watch over her?
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| No tengo, a tu pena, ni un poquito’e lástima
| I do not have, to your sorrow, not a little bit of pity
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| Siento las del pobre que se fue pa’siempre
| I feel the feelings of the poor man who left forever
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| Porque sé lo triste que es hallarse solo
| Cause I know how sad it is to be alone
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| Cuando se ha querido, como el gaucho quiere | When he has loved himself, as the gaucho wants |