El Almirante Padilla Lyrics in English Carlos Vives
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Almirante Padilla by Carlos Vives from Spanish to English.
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Allá en la Guajira arriba
There in La Guajira up
Donde nace el contrabando
Where smuggling is born
El Almirante Padilla
Admiral Padilla
Barrió a Puerto López y lo dejó arruinao'
He swept Puerto Lopez and ruined it.'
El Almirante Padilla
Admiral Padilla
Barrió a Puerto López y lo dejó arruinao'
He swept Puerto Lopez and ruined it.'
Pobre Tite, pobre Tite
Poor Tite, poor Tite
Pobre Tite Socarrás
Poor Tite Socarrás
Ahora se encuentra muy triste
Now he is very sad
Lo ha perdido todo por contrabandea'
He's lost everything to smuggling.'
Ahora se encuentra muy triste
Now he is very sad
Y lo ha perdido todo por contrabandea'
And he's lost everything by smuggling.'
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
A ganarse la vida el Tite Socarrás
Make a living on Tite Socarrás
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
A ganarse la vida el sin contrabandea'
To earn a living without smuggling'
Barco, pirata, bandido
Ship, pirate, bandit
Que Santo Tomás me crea
May St. Thomas believe me
Una fiesta le he ofrecido
A party I have offered
Cuando un submarino lo volteé en Corea
When a submarine overturned it in Korea
Que una fiesta le he ofrecido
That a party I have offered
Cuando un submarino lo volteé en Corea
When a submarine overturned it in Korea
Pobre Tite, pobre Tite
Poor Tite, poor Tite
La armada le salió lista
The navy came out ready
Ombe' que ahora está muy triste
Ombe' who is now very sad
Lo ha perdido todo por contrabandista
He has lost everything for a smuggler
Ombe' que ahora está muy triste
Ombe' who is now very sad
Lo ha perdido todo por contrabandista
He has lost everything for a smuggler
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
A ganarse la vida el Tite Socarrás
Make a living on Tite Socarrás
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
A ganarse la vida el sin contrabandea'
To earn a living without smuggling'
Y en Santa Marta
And in Santa Marta
Al almirante de las playas más lindas del mundo
To the admiral of the most beautiful beaches in the world
Frank Lineros
Frank Lineros
El que tiene es el que pierde
The one who has is the one who loses
Eso dice Socarrás
That's what Socarrás says.
Ese dicho, no es mi dicho
That saying, it's not my saying.
Porque yo Escalona, no he perdido na'
Because I Escalona, I have not lost na'
Ese dicho, no es mi dicho
That saying, it's not my saying.
Porque yo Escalona, no he perdido na'
Because I Escalona, I have not lost na'
Unos pierden porque juegan
Some lose because they play
Escalona enamorando
Escalona falling in love
Pero el Tite, pobrecito
But Tite, poor guy
Lo ha perdido todo por el contrabando
He has lost everything to smuggling
Pero el Tite, pobrecito
But Tite, poor guy
Lo ha perdido todo por el contrabando
He has lost everything to smuggling
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
A ganarse la vida el Tite Socarrás
Make a living on Tite Socarrás
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
¿Y ahora pa' dónde irá?
And now where will he go?
A ganarse la vida el sin contrabandea'
To earn a living without smuggling'
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