"the tracalera"*

 

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Please remember! this translation is my personal work. it is sometimes difficult to translate word for word from spanish to english, so it may sound awkward in one languange when it is perfectly

Ral in the other. but I think you can get the general idea!

 

 

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*tracalera in mexico can mean someone delinquent in

Payments who moves from place to place looking for work.

I left corpus because I didn’t pay the rent

In san antonio I found myself with another bill

Over there in the valley the guys from the car

(company) were looking for me

They were seeing red because they never found me

 

At midnight I started out for laredo

But even there I couldn’t find a hideout

In austin I found out that my parents were

Looking for me

It had been some time that I didn’t

Even send them five bucks

 

That is why they now call me tracalera

All over texas, they don’t let me rest

Let’s see if in houston, I can earn some money

And I’ll come to pay them even though it means

I don’t sleep

 

There in dallas I found myself a man

"come out here to waco, I’ve got some cash"

But the law was out looking for him

The next day they caught him with contraband

 

There in victoria the police stopped me

For a few (forged) checks and a fine that I owed

I called out to the country (home),

I want to talk to my sister, but

She’s sleeping, and my niece answers the phone

 

That is why they now call me tracalera

All over texas, they don’t let me rest

Let’s see if in houston, I can earn some money

And I’ll come to pay them even though it means

I don’t sleep.