Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Solo Deje A Mi Padre by Montez De Durango from Spanish to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Un día por sorpresa le dije
One day, by surprise, I said to him
A mi padre que había
My father that I had
Decidido viajar hacia el norte
I had decided to travel north
Ya estaba cansado de tanta pobreza
I was tired of so much poverty
Y que yo quería poderlo ayudar
And that I wanted 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, don't go, don't leave me
Dejes solo yo ya estoy muy viejo
Leave me alone I'm already very old
Tal vez cuando vuelvas debajo de tierra
Maybe when you go back under the ground
Me vas a encontrar solo deje
You'll find me alone leave me
Yo a mi padre solo labrando
I left my father alone tilling
La tierra cuentan que iban llorando
They say that they were crying
Haya junto a su parcela dicen
They say that they were praying
Que iban rezando para que
That they were praying that
A mi bien me fuera y que
I was doing well and that
Le pedía a los cielos pa que yo
I was praying to the heavens that I would
Pronto volviera
I would soon return
Se fueron los años muy poco
The years went by very little
Escribía y al paso del tiempo yo
I was writing and as time went by
Me fui olvidando pero un día de pronto
I was forgetting but one day suddenly
Llego la noticia que mi viejecito
The news came that my old man
Estaba agonizando
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 he was
Bajo tierra a mi me destroza
Under the ground it tears me apart
El remordimiento de haberlo dejado
The remorse of having left him
Solo tanto tiempo
Alone for so long
Solo deje yo a mi padre solo
I left my father alone
Labrando la tierra cuentan
Tilling the earth they say
Que lo iban llorando haya junto
That they were weeping for him
A su parcela dicen que lo iban
They say that they went to his plot of land
Rezando pa que a mi bien me
Praying that he would be good to me
Fuera y que le pedía a los cielos
And that he prayed to the heavens
Para que yo pronto volviera
So that I would soon return