Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Arracadas by Los Tigres Del Norte from Spanish to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Como la sombra de un fantasma por las noches
Like the shadow of a ghost at night
Cruzando montes, barrancos y poblados
Crossing mountains, ravines and towns
Va un hombre triste montado en su caballo
A sad man rides his horse
Su perro lo acompaña rastreando los sembrados
His dog accompanies him searching the crops
Todos se dicen por ahí viene el arracadas
Everyone says that there comes the hoop earrings
Lleva patillas chamarra de vaquero
He wears sideburns in a cowboy jacket
Tejana negra y pantalón de cuero
Black jean and leather pants
Con mirada tranquila buscando algún cuatrero
With a calm look looking for some rustler
Voy a cumplir un juramento que es sagrado
I will fulfill an oath that is sacred
Cuando salió de su jacal dijo a su madre
When he came out of the shack he told his mother
Voy a buscar aquel traidor que allá en la loma
I'm going to look for that traitor that there on the hill
Cobardemente y sin piedad mató a mi padre
Cowardly and mercilessly killed my father
Unos rumores de plegaria se escucharon
Some rumors of prayer were heard
Cuando una madre por su hijo pide al cielo
When a mother asks heaven for her son
Luego un caballo se aleja relinchando
Then a horse whinnies away
Y allá por la barranca sus pasos se perdieron
And there by the ravine his steps were lost
Y aquel traidor a quien buscaba el arracadas
And that traitor whom the earrings were looking for
Lo hallaron muerto colgado en un potrero
They found him hanging dead in a pasture
Mientras otro hombre, su perro y su caballo
While another man, his dog and his horse
Nunca jamás se han visto perdió su paradero
They have never seen each other he lost his whereabouts
Allá en lo oscuro de un jacal se oye un soyoso
There in the darkness of a jacal you hear a soy
Es de una madre que se encuentra abandonada
It is from a mother who is abandoned
Le llora a un hombre que la escucha desde el cielo
She cries to a man who listens to her from heaven
Y a un hijo ausente del que no se sabe nada
And to an absent son of whom nothing is known
Y a un hijo ausente del que no se sabe nada
And to an absent son of whom nothing is known
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