| Juana La Traicionera (original) | Juana La Traicionera (translation) |
|---|---|
| Para empezar a cantar | to start singing |
| Primero pido un suspiro | First I ask for a sigh |
| Nomas pensando en tu amor | Just thinking about your love |
| Que me echaste al olvido | that you threw me into oblivion |
| Juanita era muy bonita | Juanita was very pretty |
| No se le podia negar | She couldn't be denied |
| Pero mato a su marido | But he killed her husband |
| Por amar la libertad | for loving freedom |
| Ya estando jose dormido | already being jose asleep |
| La cobija le saco | I take the blanket off |
| Y en la mediacion del pecho | And in the middle of the chest |
| Tres puñaladas le dio | Three stab wounds she gave him |
| Despues que ella lo mato | after she killed him |
| Se agachaba y le decia | She crouched down and told him |
| Ya te moriste jose | you died jose |
| Era lo que yo queria | It was what I wanted |
| Le revisaron la casa | they searched the house |
| Como dispuso la ley | as provided by law |
| Le hallaron una pistola | They found a gun |
| Y una navaja de muelle | And a switchblade knife |
| La llevaron a la carcel | They took her to jail |
| Juana con mucho placer | Joan with great pleasure |
| Toda la gente decia | all the people said |
| Ay que valor de mujer! | Oh, what a woman's worth! |
| El juez primero le dice | The judge first tells you |
| Juanita que es lo que has hecho | Juanita, what have you done? |
| Es muy preciso que yo | It is very precise that I |
| Te castigue lo malhecho | You punish the wrongdoing |
| El juez segundo le dice | The second judge tells him |
| Juana dime la verdad | Joan tell me the truth |
| Al cabos no te castigo | After all I don't punish you |
| Ahi dios te castigara | Oh god will punish you |
| Ya con esta me despide | With this he fires me |
| Por las cumbres de una higuera | Through the tops of a fig tree |
| Aqui se acaban los versos | Here the verses end |
| De juana la traicionera | Of Juana the treacherous |
