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Original lyrics
Solo deje yo a mi padre
Un día por sorpresa le dije a mi padre
que había decidido viajar hacia el norte
que estaba cansado de tanta pobreza.
y que yo quería poderlo ayudar.
Con mucha tristeza me dijo mi padre
« hijo no te vayas no me dejes solo
yo ya estoy muy viejo tal vez cuando vuelvas
debajo de tierra me vas a encontrar ».
Solo deje yo a mi padre, solo labrando la tierra
cuentan que vean llorando haya junto a su parcela
dicen que oían rezando para que a mi bien me fuera
y que le pedía a los cielos pa' que yo pronto volviera.
Se fueron los años muy poco escribía
y al paso del tiempo yo me fui olvidando
pero un día de pronto llego la noticia
que mi viejecito estaba agonizando.
Ahora que regreso mi padre esta muerto
como el me lo dijo esta bajo tierra
a mi me destroza el remordimiento
de haberlo dejado solo tanto tiempo.
Solo deje yo a mi padre, solo labrando la tierra
cuentan que vean llorando haya junto a su parcela
dicen que oían rezando para que a mi bien me fuera
y que le pedía a los cielos pa' que yo pronto volviera.
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citlālicue on 2018-12-09Translation
I've left my father all alone
By surprise I told my father one day
that I had decided to travel up north,
that I had grown tired of so much poverty
and that I wanted to lend him a hand.
With much sadness my father told me:
"son, don't go, don't leave me alone,
for I am too old and perhaps when you return
you'll find me buried beneath the earth".
I left my father all alone, alone laboring the soil,
they tell me that they saw him crying near his plot,
they say they heard him praying so it would go well for me,
and he would ask the heavens that I would soon return.
The years passed, I wrote very little [to him]
and with the passing of time I began forgetting him,
but one day the news suddenly reached me,
that my little old man was suffering.
Now that I've returned my father has died,
just as he had told me, he is beneath the earth;
I am torn by regret for having left him
all alone for so long.
I left my father all alone, alone laboring the soil,
they tell me that they saw him crying near his plot,
they say they heard him praying so it would go well for me,
and he would ask the heavens that I would soon return.
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