La Soga
Ali Primera
The Rope
"Pull", so the rope breaks
and to the one who hit you
just keep count
"Pull, pull, pull" so the rope breaks
If you're in the waning quarter
tomorrow there will be a new moon
"Pull", the bad times are passing
and like in dominoes
the onlookers are just wooden
"Pull, pull, pull" so the rope breaks our land will be loose
like a happy heifer
"Pull, pull, pull" so the rope breaks
oh, oh, oh, it breaks, it breaks
"Pull" because the town is dry leather
if they step on it on one side
it rises on the other
for it has a skin
full of hope
"Pull, pull, pull" so the rope breaks
oh, oh, oh, it breaks, it breaks
The town is not to blame
if they deceive it once and say that the matacán
quietly dies in summer
when the water becomes scarce
and the hill is left bare
when the water becomes scarce
and the hill is left bare
Oh, oh, oh, bare
bare, bare
If they take the venom from the rattlesnake
even if the maraca sounds
it ceases to be a rattlesnake
"Pull, pull, pull" so the rope breaks
oh, oh, oh, it breaks, it breaks
If they take the venom from the rattlesnake
even if the maraca sounds
it ceases to be a rattlesnake
"Pull, pull, pull" so the rope breaks
oh, oh, oh, it breaks, it breaks
