Las Tres Mujeres
Por hay cuenta una leyenda
Que en el rancho de canales
Se aparecen tres mujeres
Que en vida fueron rivales
Se dieron de puñaladas
Allá entre los mezquitales
El causante de sus muertes
Santos valdez se llamaba
A las tres por separado
Les decía que las amaba
Pero a ninguna quería
Nada más las engañaba
Rosita era de la costa
De charco azul Maria ines
Estela era de reynosa
La más brava de las tres
Decía yo pierdo la vida
Antes que a santos valdez
Dicen que en laguna seca
Cuando la gente pasaba
Se oian gritos de mujeres
Ya cuando el Sol se ocultaba
Eran aquellas valientes
Que ya de muertas penaban
Santos valdez fue a sus tumbas
Para pedirles perdón
Rezaba sus oraciones
Con todo su corazón
Y quien había de pensarlo
Que moriria en el panteon
Rosita era de la costa
De charco azul Maria ines
Estela era de reynosa
La más brava de las tres
Decía yo pierdo la vida
Antes que a santos valdez
The Three Women
There is a legend told
That in the ranch of Canales
Three women appear
Who in life were rivals
They stabbed each other
There among the mesquites
The cause of their deaths
Was called Santos Valdez
To each of the three separately
He would say he loved them
But he didn't love any
He just deceived them
Rosita was from the coast
From Charco Azul, Maria Ines
Estela was from Reynosa
The fiercest of the three
She said I'd rather lose my life
Than Santos Valdez
They say in Laguna Seca
When people passed by
They heard women's screams
As the sun set
It was those brave women
Who now haunted as dead
Santos Valdez went to their graves
To ask for forgiveness
He prayed his prayers
With all his heart
And who would have thought
He would die in the cemetery
Rosita was from the coast
From Charco Azul, Maria Ines
Estela was from Reynosa
The fiercest of the three
She said I'd rather lose my life
Than Santos Valdez