El Arracadas

Vicente Fernández
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Como la sombra de un fantasma por las noches

Like the shadow of a ghost in the nights

Cruzando montes, barrancos y poblados

Crossing mountains, ravines, and villages

Va un hombre triste montado en su caballo

A sad man rides on his horse

Su perro lo acompaña rastreando los sembrados

His dog accompanies him, tracking the fields


Todos se dicen por ahí viene el arracadas

Everyone says there comes El Arracadas

Lleva patillas chamarra de vaquero

He wears sideburns, a cowboy jacket

Tejana negra y pantalón de cuero

Black cowboy hat and leather pants

Con mirada tranquila buscando algún cuatrero

With a calm gaze, looking for some cattle rustler


Voy a cumplir un juramento que es sagrado

I'm going to fulfill a sacred oath

Cuando salió de su jacal dijo a su madre

When he left his humble dwelling, he said to his mother

Voy a buscar aquel traidor que allá en la loma

I'm going to seek that traitor up on the hill

Cobardemente y sin piedad mató a mi padre

Who cowardly and mercilessly killed my father


Unos rumores de plegaria se escucharon

Some prayers were heard

Cuando una madre por su hijo pide al cielo

When a mother prays to heaven for her son

Luego un caballo se aleja relinchando

Then a horse moves away neighing

Y allá por la barranca sus pasos se perdieron

And there in the ravine, his steps were lost


Y aquel traidor a quien buscaba el arracadas

And that traitor whom El Arracadas was seeking

Lo hallaron muerto colgado en un potrero

They found him dead, hanging in a field

Mientras otro hombre, su perro y su caballo

While another man, his dog, and his horse

Nunca jamás se han visto perdió su paradero

Have never been seen again, lost their trail


Allá en lo oscuro de un jacal se oye un soyoso

There in the darkness of a humble dwelling, a sob is heard

Es de una madre que se encuentra abandonada

It's from a mother who is abandoned

Le llora a un hombre que la escucha desde el cielo

She cries to a man who listens from the sky

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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Havana, Cuba October 31, 2024
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