Si de Cantar Se Trata

Con vitillo y con machaco

With vitillo and machaco

Yo aprendí la chacarera

I learned the chacarera

La cantaba todo el día

I sang it all day

Allá en salta campo afuera

There in Salta, in the countryside

Andando por payogasta

Walking through Payogasta

De changuito ya sabía

I already knew it from a young age

Aunque nos llenen de gringos

Even if we're filled with foreigners

A ellos no los cambiaría

I wouldn't change them

Me rodeaban las guitarras

Guitars surrounded me

Bombos y trajes de gaucho

Drums and gaucho outfits

Pucha que lindo les quedan

Wow, how nice they look

A todos esos paisanos

To all those countrymen

Si ya tenes veinte años

If you're already twenty years old

Y no sabes decidirte

And can't decide

Venite pa' el folklore

Come to folklore

No hace falta que te invite

No need for an invitation

Me duele si del folklore

It hurts me if about folklore

Dicen que es cosa de viejo

They say it's an old thing

Si sos joven prometeme

If you're young, promise me

No aflojarle ni un momento

Don't slack off for a moment

Si cantando en las reuniones

If singing at gatherings

Por ahí alguno se ríe

Someone laughs

No te aflijas, perdonalo

Don't worry, forgive him

No conoce sus raíces

He doesn't know his roots

Me parece haber oído

I seem to have heard

Decir que se está acabando

That it's ending

Con tu mano y con la mía

With your hand and mine

Vamos a seguir tirando

We're going to keep going

Si seguís con veinte años

If you're still twenty years old

Afinando la guitarra

Tuning the guitar

Llévate todo el folklore

Take all of folklore with you

Por donde quiera que vayas

Wherever you go