El Origen De Halloween Lyrics in English Pascu Y Rodri

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Origen De Halloween by Pascu Y Rodri from Spanish to English.

Hello, comrades of terror

Welcome to "Gutting The Stories with Pascu And Rodri

Today we're here to talk about the origin of Halloween!

A long time ago

The Celts celebrated a singular festival

They called it Samhain and it ends their year

It was thought

That the dead went wandering everywhere

That their magic

During these dates it kept growing

The deceased who were evil

Were expelled with bonfires and with turnips

And the children collected

All the gifts that the houses offered

They take them

To the druids so that

They divine

But first they must do

A few human, animal, and assorted vegetable sacrifices

La-ra-lai-la la

When the Romans discover it

They think that so much sacrifice is barbaric and try to forbid it

The festival keeps fading little by little

Until Pope Gregory IV

Changes its name to "All Saints' Day"

But in the 19th century Irish immigrants

Take it with them to America

And popularize it again with stories like that of Jack O'Lantern

Stingy Jack was a rogue

Mean, cunning, and drunk

So much that he even tricked the devil

One day he showed up

But Jack trapped him

Using a cross from his pocket

I want you to give me ten more years

When he comes to collect, he tricks him again

With crosses he locks him in an apple tree

Since you've won again, ask for whatever you want

You won't ever be able to touch my soul again

La-ra-lai-la la

When the drunk dies and heaven doesn't accept him

He runs to hell, but Satan remembers

That your soul is only yours and that I can't have it

And if you want rest, go look for it on your own

He threw him some embers

With a turnip he made

A lantern that lights his path

He goes wandering without stopping

Nobody can touch him

He is the wandering Jack O'Lantern

And since in the United States there was a surplus of pumpkins

They decided to use them as lanterns instead of turnips

To scare off the devil like that on Halloween

If you celebrate Halloween, do it carefully

Don't go sacrificing people

And if you want to scare the devil away quickly

Put a Jack O'Lantern at your door

Did you like these lyrics?

SONG MEANING

Ready for a spine-tingling history lesson set to a catchy tune? In "El Origen De Halloween," Spanish duo Pascu y Rodri turn the classroom into a haunted house, guiding us from the ancient Celtic festival Samhain – when people believed the spirits of the dead walked among the living – through Roman crackdowns and a papal rebrand into All Saints’ Day. The party almost vanished, but 19th-century Irish immigrants carried it across the Atlantic, where the holiday was reborn in the United States with bonfires, costumes, and plenty of candy.

The song’s second half spotlights the mischievous legend of Stingy Jack, the trickster who outsmarted the Devil, was barred from Heaven and Hell, and now wanders the night with an ember glowing inside a carved turnip. American farmers had more pumpkins than turnips, so the iconic Jack O’Lantern got an orange makeover. Pascu y Rodri wrap it all up with a playful warning: enjoy Halloween, skip the sacrifices, and keep a glowing pumpkin at your door if you want to scare the Devil away!

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Pascu Y Rodri El Origen De Halloween Lyrics