| Que triste, se oye la lluvia
| How sad, you can hear the rain
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| En los techos de cartn
| On the cardboard ceilings
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| Que triste vive mi gente
| How sad my people live
|
| En las casas de cartn
| In the cardboard houses
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| Viene bajando el obrero
| The worker is coming down
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| Casi arrastrando sus pasos
| Almost dragging his steps
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| Por el peso del sufrir
| For the weight of suffering
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| Mira que es mucho el sufrir
| Look, it's a lot to suffer
|
| Mira que pesa el sufrir
| Look how heavy it is to suffer
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| Arriba deja la mujer premiada
| Above leaves the award-winning woman
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| Abajo esta la ciudad
| below is the city
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| Y se pierde en su marea
| And is lost in its tide
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| Hoy es lo mismo que ayer
| Today is the same as yesterday
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| Es un mundo sin maana
| It's a world without tomorrow
|
| Que triste, se oye la lluvia
| How sad, you can hear the rain
|
| En los techos de cartn
| On the cardboard ceilings
|
| Que triste vive mi gente
| How sad my people live
|
| En las casas de cartn
| In the cardboard houses
|
| Con sus mismas cicatrices
| with the same scars
|
| Millonarios de lombrices y
| Millionaires of worms and
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| Por eso que tristes viven los nios
| That's why children live sad
|
| En las casas de cartn
| In the cardboard houses
|
| Que triste, se oye la lluvia
| How sad, you can hear the rain
|
| En los techos de cartn
| On the cardboard ceilings
|
| Que triste vive mi gente
| How sad my people live
|
| En las casas de cartn
| In the cardboard houses
|
| Usted no lo va a creer
| You won't believe it
|
| Pero hay escuelas de perros
| But there are dog schools
|
| Y les dan educacin
| And they give them education
|
| Pa’que no muerdan los diarios
| So they don't bite the newspapers
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| Pero el patrn
| But the pattern
|
| Hace aos muchos aos
| He years many years ago
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| Que esta mordiendo al obrero
| What is biting the worker
|
| Que triste, se oye la lluvia
| How sad, you can hear the rain
|
| En los techos de cartn
| On the cardboard ceilings
|
| Que lejos, pasa una esperanza
| How far, a hope passes
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| En las casas de cartn | In the cardboard houses |