500 Novillos

Cuando salimos del rancho

When we left the ranch

Con la fuerte novillada

With the strong herd of young bulls

Cuantos trabajos pasamos

How many hardships we went through

Con aquella gran manada

With that large herd

Quinientos novillos eran

There were five hundred young bulls

Todititos muy livianos

All of them very light

No los pudimos para

We couldn't stop them

Entre veinte mexicanos

Among twenty Mexicans

En los llanos de Palomas

In the plains of Palomas

Se soltó un toro bragado

A proud bull was released

Y el caporal lo lazo

And the foreman lassoed it

En su caballo el venado

The deer on his horse

La mamá de un ranchero

The mother of a rancher

Le pregunta al caporal

Asks the foreman

Señora si le dijera

Ma'am, if I told you

Se pusiera usted a llorar

Would you start to cry?

A su hijo lo mato un toro

Your son was killed by a bull

En las trancas de un corral

In the enclosures of a corral

Ya con esta me despido

Now with this, I say goodbye

Ya no tengo que cantar

I no longer have to sing

Estos versos los compuso

These verses were composed

Armadito el caporal

By the well-prepared foreman