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    Los Tucanes de Tijuana – Mis tres animales

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My three beasts

I live on three beasts which I love as I love my life.
With them I gain money, and I don't even buy them food.
They're very fine beasts,
My cocaine, my pot, and my heroin1...
 
In California and Nevada, in Texas and in Arizona,
and also in Chicago, I have a few people
who sell my beasts,
in greater quantities than hamburgers in McDonalds..
 
I learnt to live life, until I got money.
And I don't deny that I was poor, nor that I was a mule driver.
Now I'm a bigshot,
my customers have a craving for my product2.
 
uuuy
 
I bring death pretty close, but I don't know how to quit3.
I know that the goverment is hunting me, even under the sea.
But for everything theres a way,
they haven't been able to find my hiding place.
 
Loads of money, that too is very dangerous.
For that reason I spend it willingly with my friends,
and what's left with the women,
they see money and the go bug-eyed.
 
They say that my beasts are going to kill people,
but they don't have to put themselves in harm's way.
My beasts are brave,
if you can't do bullfighting then don't get into it.
 
  • 1. "my parakeet, my rooster, and my nanny goat" but that is Mexican slang for those drugs
  • 2. I guess that hueros is the subject meaning "worthless people" and "mis mascotas" is the object meaning "my pets", the pets being the beasts of the first two stanzas; but even if subject and object are swapped over hueros and mascotas both have a wide enough reason for the underlying meaning of the phase to be the same
  • 3. it could mean "run away" rather than "quit"
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Mis tres animales

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Carey ColeCarey Cole    Mon, 14/08/2017 - 01:00

I believe the perito gallo and chiva is puppy rooster and goat. Could be wrong but....

Carey ColeCarey Cole    Mon, 14/08/2017 - 01:00

Which are def coke weed and heroin.

Christopher BarclayChristopher Barclay    Sun, 30/04/2023 - 20:45

It's 'gueros' with the u pronounced and not 'weros' or 'hueros'. The word means people who look European including Mexicans who look European.

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