Vicente Fernández El Arracadas english translation
Vicente Fernández El Arracadas song lyrics
Vicente Fernández El Arracadas translation
Como la sombra de un fantasma por las noches
Like the shadow of a ghost at the nights
Cruzando montes, arrancos, y poblados
Crossing hills, plains, and villages
Va un hombre triste montado en su caballo
A sad man is riding his horse
Su perro lo acompaña rastreando los sembrados
His dog accompanies him by tracking the crops
Todos se dicen por ahi viene el arracada
They all say that the Arracada comes
Lleva patillas, chamarra de vaquero
He wear sideburns, cowboy jacket
Tejana negra y pantalon de cuero, con mirada tranquila
Black hat and leather pants, with a calm look
Buscando algun cuatrero
Looking for some horse thief
Voy a cumplir un juramento que es sagrado
I will fulfill an oath that is sacred
Cuando salio de su jacal, dijo a su madre
When he came out of his hut, he told his mother
Voy a buscar aquel traidor que alla en la loma
I'm going to look for that traitor who up there on the hill
Cobardemente y sin piedad mato a mi padre
Cowardly and mercilessly killed my father
Unos rumores de plegaria se escucharon
Rumors of prayer were heard
Cuando una madre por su hijo pide al cielo
When a mother for her son pray to heaven
Luego un caballo se aleja relinchando
Then a horse whistles away
Y alla por la barranca sus pasos se perdieron
And down the ravine his footsteps were lost
Y aquel traidor aquien buscaba el arracada
And that traitor who was looking for the Arracada
Lo hallaron muerto colgado en un potrero
They found him dead hanging in a pasture
Mientras otro hombre sus perro y su caballo
While other man, his dog and his horse
Nunca jamas se han visto perdio su paradero
Never have they ever been seen, lost their whereabouts
Alla en lo obscuro de un jacal se hoye un soyoso
There in the darkness of a hut you hear a sob
Es de una madre que se encuentra abandonada
It is from a mother who is abandoned
Le llora a un hombre que le escucha desde el cielo
she cries to a man who from heaven listens to her
Y a un hijo ausente del que no se sabe nada
And an absent son from whom nothing is known
Y aun hijo ausente del que no se sabe nada
And an absent son from whom nothing is known