Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Moreño by Lupillo Rivera from Spanish to English.
A ver, compa
Let's see, buddy
¡Agarre la cochi porque nos vamos a aventar el corrido de El Moreño!
Grab the accordion 'cause we're gonna play the corrido of El Moreño!
¡Olé, señores!
Olé, gentlemen!
Ay, ay, ay, mi casa
Ay, ay, ay, my home
¡En las estrellas, compa!
In the stars, buddy!
Válgame, El Santo Niñito
Help me, Holy Child
Nos ha de favorecer
He must favor us
Anda borracho El Moreño
El Moreño's drunk
Sabrá Dios qué vaya a hacer
God knows what he's gonna do
El Moreño les gritaba
El Moreño shouted at them
Era hombre y no se rajaba
He was a man and wouldn't back down
Y encumbrándose a la sierra
And climbing into the mountains
Sólo a Dios él perdonaba
He only forgave God
El Moreño les gritaba
El Moreño shouted at them
Brincando un cerco de alambre
Jumping a wire fence
'Todavía me sobra parque
'I still have ammo left
Bandidos y muertos de hambre'
You bandits and starving bums'
El Moreño brincó el taste
El Moreño jumped the track
Rodando como una bola
Rolling like a ball
¿Cuál sería su mala suerte?
What would his bad luck be?
Se le cayó la pistola
He dropped his pistol
El Moreño traiba parque
El Moreño had ammo
Pero el parque no servía
But the ammo was no good
Y por eso en San Ignacio
And that's why in San Ignacio
Lo aprehendió la policía
The police arrested him
Vuela, vuela, palomita
Fly, fly, little dove
Párate en aquellos leños
Perch on those logs
Aquí se acaba el corrido
Here the corrido ends
De este famoso Moreño
Of this famous Moreño
Que la pasen bien, oiga
Have a good one, y'hear
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