Yaguatirica

(Northern song)

Yaguatirica, mountain cat,
which was the female cat that gave birth to you
with that yellow fur
with black spots like a benteveo.

Yaguatirica, compadrito cat,
big-eyed like a boitatá,
there in the mountain I go and wait for you
to have a gathering of caiporá.

The other night I was dancing
at a school over in Moirón,
and I was a rooster, dragging my wing,
to a girl from Yaguarón.

I tied my horse at daybreak
and there on the trunk of a cinnamon tree
I left my name and her name
engraved with the tip of my facón.

I shot a macurero
over in the shores of Abrojal
and the next day I was skinning
a river wolf in Caraguatá.

Nowhere do I warm the bench
I'm similar to the marandubá.
How I wish I had two wings
and could fly through the air!

Yaguatirica, mountain cat,
which was the female cat that gave birth to you
with that yellow fur
with black spots like a benteveo.

I have no seat or destination
since I left a Jasmine,
because I'm a gaucho, yaguatirica,
and not a little plant from the garden.

Fasero: From Portuguese, compadrito.
Big-eyed: Corruption of the Portuguese