| Cuando yo salí del rancho
| When I left the ranch
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| No llevaba ni calzones
| He wasn't even wearing panties
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| Pero si llegue a tijuana
| But if I get to Tijuana
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| De puritos aventones
| Of hitchhiking
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| Como no traía dinero
| Since I didn't bring money
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| Me paraba en las esquinas
| I stood on corners
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| Para ver a quien gorreaba
| To see who was gorreando
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| Los pecuesos de gallina
| The chicken breasts
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| Yo quería cruzar la línea
| I wanted to cross the line
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| De la unión americana
| of the american union
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| Yo quería ganar dinero
| I wanted to earn money
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| Porque esa era mi tirada
| Because that was my throw
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| Como no traía papeles
| Since he didn't bring papers
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| Mucho menos pasaportes
| Much less passports
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| Me avente cruzando cerros
| I threw myself across hills
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| Yo solito y sin coyotes
| I alone and without coyotes
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| Después verán como me fue:
| Then you will see how it went:
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| Llegue a santa ana con las patas bien peladas
| I arrived in Santa Ana with my legs well peeled
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| Los huaraches que llevaba se acabaron de volada
| The huaraches that I was wearing were blown away
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| El sombrero y la camisa los perdí
| I lost the hat and the shirt
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| En la correteada que me dieron
| In the chase that they gave me
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| Unos «gueros» que ya mero me agarraban
| Some "gueros" who already grabbed me
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| Ya llegue a la carretera
| I already hit the road
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| Muerto de hambre y desvelado
| Starving and sleepless
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| Me subi en un tren carguero
| I got on a freight train
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| Que venía de colorado
| who came from colorado
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| Y con rumbo a san francisco
| And heading to San Francisco
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| De un vagón me fui colado
| I was sneaked out of a wagon
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| Pero con tan mala suerte
| But with such bad luck
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| Que en salinas me agarraron
| that in salinas they caught me
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| Después verán como me fue:
| Then you will see how it went:
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| Llegó la migra de la mano me agarraron
| The migra arrived by the hand they grabbed me
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| Me decían no se que cosas que en inglés
| They told me I don't know what things in English
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| Me regañaron me digeron los gabachos
| They scolded me, the frogs digested me
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| «te rregresas pa' tu rancho»
| «you return to your ranch»
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| Pero yo sentí buen gacho regresar pa' mi terruño
| But I felt good to go back to my homeland
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| De bracero fracasado sin dinero y sin hilacho
| Of a failed bracero without money and without thread
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| De bracero fracasado sin dinero y aún hilacho… | Of a failed bracero with no money and still frayed… |