Mi Ultimo Contrabando Lyrics in English Beto Quintanilla

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Mi Ultimo Contrabando by Beto Quintanilla from Spanish to English.

I want that when I die you all listen

This is my taste and my style

My Latin casket and me well dressed with my gold jewelry

In my right hand, an AK-47

And in the other, a kilo of powder

My good cowboy hat and ostrich boots

And my piteado belt

A good Alipus and a deer-hide vest

So that Saint Peter tells Saint John

There comes a heavyweight bull

It'll be my last trip

And I don't wanna do it in vain

I want that they bury me

With my Last Contraband

If God doesn't accept me like this

Well, let's see if the devil accepts me

I want only my friends at my wake

The ones that are in this business

Bringing platters and offering powder to everybody

That they play cards and fine roosters too

Like the real bulls do

I'm gonna leave at my funeral

All the expenses paid

What's more, let a band play, man

And a good conjunto when I'm already dying

So that the corrido is heard real loud

Of my Last Contraband

Adorn my whole grave

With resin and weed branches

And I want, if it were possible

That you bury me with my truck

Just so that they see that the earth

Didn't swallow just anything

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SONG MEANING

Mi Último Contrabando is Beto Quintanilla’s tongue-in-cheek farewell letter to the world. Over a lively norteño beat, the narrator lists the deluxe inventory he wants in his coffin: gold jewelry, an AK-47, a kilogram of cocaine, a fine cowboy hat, ostrich-skin boots, and even his pickup truck. He imagines Saint Peter warning Saint John that a heavyweight is on the way, then shrugs that if Heaven will not take him, maybe Hell will. Packed with bravado, humor, and vivid detail, the song turns his own funeral into one last daring smuggling run.

Beyond the flashy wish list, the corrido celebrates loyalty and lifestyle. The singer only wants his fellow traffickers at the wake, gambling, drinking mezcal, playing cards, and staging cockfights while a brass banda belts out his story. By calling this send-off his last contraband, he fuses death with the outlaw identity that defined him in life, showing how pride, honor, and excess shape the mythology of Mexico’s norteño underworld.

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Beto Quintanilla Mi Ultimo Contrabando Lyrics