Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Los 500 Novillos by Alacranes Musical from Spanish to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Un día por sorpresa le dije
One day by surprise I told him
A mi padre que había
To my father who had
Decidido viajar hacia el norte
Decided to travel north
Ya estaba cansado de tanta pobreza
He was already tired of so much poverty
Y que yo quería poderlo ayudar
And that I wanted to be able to help him
Con mucha tristeza me dijo
With great sadness he told me
Mi padre hijo no te vayas no me
My father son do not go not me
Dejes solo yo ya estoy muy viejo
Leave alone I am already very old
Tal vez cuando vuelvas debajo de tierra
Maybe when you go back underground
Me vas a encontrar solo deje
You're going to find me, just let me
Yo a mi padre solo labrando
I to my father only working
La tierra cuentan que iban llorando
The earth tells that they were crying
Haya junto a su parcela dicen
There is next to the plot of him they say
Que iban rezando para que
that they were praying for you
A mi bien me fuera y que
To my good I left and what
Le pedía a los cielos pa que yo
He asked the heavens for me
Pronto volviera
come back soon
Se fueron los años muy poco
The years are gone very little
Escribía y al paso del tiempo yo
I wrote and over time I
Me fui olvidando pero un día de pronto
I was forgetting but one day suddenly
Llego la noticia que mi viejecito
The news arrived that my old man
Estaba agonizando
I was dying
Ahora que regreso mi padre esta
Now that I'm back, my father is
Muerto como el me lo dijo esta
Dead as he told me this
Bajo tierra a mi me destroza
Underground destroys me
El remordimiento de haberlo dejado
The regret of having left him
Solo tanto tiempo
only so long
Solo deje yo a mi padre solo
I just left my father alone
Labrando la tierra cuentan
Tilling the land they count
Que lo iban llorando haya junto
That they were crying there together
A su parcela dicen que lo iban
They say they were going to his plot
Rezando pa que a mi bien me
Praying for my good
Fuera y que le pedía a los cielos
Outside and that he asked the heavens
Para que yo pronto volviera
So that I would soon return