500 Novillos
Cuando salimos del rancho
Con la fuerte novillada
Cuantos trabajos pasamos
Con aquella gran manada
Quinientos novillos eran
Todititos muy livianos
No los pudimos parar
Entre veinte mexicanos
En los llanos de palomas
Se soltó un toro bragado
Y el caporal lo lazo
En su caballo el venado
La mamá de un ranchero
Le pregunta al caporal
Señora si le dijera
Se pusiera usted a llorar
A su hijo lo mato un toro
En las trancas de un corral
Ya con esta me despido
Ya no tengo que cantar
Estos versos los compuso
Armadito el caporal
500 Steers
When we left the ranch
With the strong herd of steers
How many jobs we went through
With that big herd
Five hundred steers they were
All very light
We couldn't stop them
Among twenty Mexicans
In the plains of doves
A fierce bull was released
And the foreman lassoed it
On his horse, the deer
The mother of a rancher
Asks the foreman
Ma'am, if I told you
Would you start to cry
Your son was killed by a bull
In the pens of a corral
With this I bid farewell
I have nothing else to sing
These verses were composed
By the armed foreman