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Red Hill

Atahualpa Yupanqui

Cerro Colorado

Soy del cerro colorao
Ande no sabe llover
Ande naides cruza el río
Cuando le da por crecer

En piedras y moldejones
Trabajan grandes y chicos
Martillando todo el día
Pa' que otros se vuelva rico

Pasaba un chango cantando
Y en una chata carguera
Y la mula iba diciendo
Pucha, ¡qué vida fulera¡

El zorro me llevó un pollo
Y una tarde lo rastrié
Vidé que usaba alpargatas
Y eran del número diez

Agua le di a un garabato
Que se estaba por secar
Y me ha pagado con flores
Que alegran mi soledad

Me fui para Taco Yaco
A comprar un marchador
Y me truje un zaino flaco
Peticito y roncador

Chacarera, chacarera
De mi cerro colorao
Al mozo que está bailando
Lo voy a elegir de cuñao

El zorro me llevó un pollo
Y una tarde lo rastrié
Vidé que usaba alpargatas
Y eran del número diez

Red Hill

I'm from the red hill
Where it doesn't rain
Where no one crosses the river
When it decides to rise

In rocks and pebbles
Big and small work
Hammering all day
So others become rich

A monkey passed by singing
And on a cargo cart
And the mule was saying
Damn, what a tough life

The fox brought me a chicken
And one afternoon I tracked it
I saw it wearing espadrilles
And they were size ten

I gave water to a scribbler
Who was about to dry up
And he paid me with flowers
That brighten my loneliness

I went to Taco Yaco
To buy a pacer
And I brought back a skinny bay
Petite and snorer

Chacarera, chacarera
From my red hill
To the lad who's dancing
I'm going to choose him as a brother-in-law

The fox brought me a chicken
And one afternoon I tracked it
I saw it wearing espadrilles
And they were size ten

Escrita por: Atahualpa Yupanqui