| Grabe en la penca de un maguey tu nombre
| Engrave your name on the stalk of a maguey
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| Unido al mio, entrelazados
| Joined to mine, intertwined
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| Como una prueba ante la ley del monte
| As a test before the law of the mount
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| Que ahí estuvimos enamorados
| that we were in love there
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| Tu misma fuiste quien busco la penca
| You yourself were the one who looked for the penca
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| La mas bonita, la mas esbelta
| The most beautiful, the most slender
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| Y hasta dijiste que también grabara
| And you even said that I would also record
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| Dos corazones con una flecha
| Two hearts with an arrow
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| Ahora dices que ya no te acuerdas
| Now you say that you no longer remember
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| Que nada es cierto, que son palabras
| That nothing is true, that they are words
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| Yo estoy tranquilo porque al fin de cuentas
| I am calm because in the end
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| En nuestro ilirio las pencas hablan
| In our Illyrian the pencas speak
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| La misma noche que mi amor cambiaste
| The same night that my love changed
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| También cortaste aquella penca
| You also cut that penca
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| Te imaginaste que si la veía
| Did you imagine that if I saw her
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| Pa' ti seria como una frenta
| For you it would be like a forehead
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| Se te olvidaba que el maguey sabia
| You forgot that the maguey knew
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| Lo que juraste en nuestra noche
| What you swore in our night
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| Y que a su modo el también podría
| And that in his own way he could also
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| Recriminarte con un reproche
| Recriminate you with a reproach
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| No se si creas las extrañas cosas
| I don't know if you believe the strange things
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| Que ven mis ojos, tal ves te asombres
| What do my eyes see, maybe you'll be amazed
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| Las pencas nuevas que al maguey le brotan
| The new leaves that the maguey sprouts
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| Vienen marcadas con nuestros nombres | They come marked with our names |