Lyrics and translation Guadalupe Pineda - Jacinto Cenobio

Jacinto Cenobio

En la capital
Lo hallé en un mercado
Con su mecapal
Descargando un carro

Le dije: 'padrino, le andaba buscando'
Se echo un trago'e vino
Y se quedo pensando

Me dijo: 'un favor vo'a pedirle ahija'o
Que a naiden le cuente que me ha encontra'o
Que yo ya no quero volver pa'lla
Al fin ya no tengo ni'onde llegar

Murio su madrina la Trenida
Los hijos crecieron ¿y adonde estan?
Perdi la cosecha, queme el jacal
Sin lo que mas quero que mas me da'

'Sin lo que mas quero ya nada es igual
Cobija y sombrero seran mi hogar
Por eso, por eso mi ahija'o regrese en paz
Y a naiden le cuente que estoy aca'

Quedamos de acuerdo
Lo deje tomando
Yo encendi un recuerdo
Y me lo fui fumando

Me parecio verlo en su verde monte
Sonriendole al viento y al horizonte
Haciendo una mueca pa' ver pasar
La mancha de garzas rumbo al palmar
Jacinto Cenobio, Jacinto Adán
Si en tu paraíso solo habia paz
Yo, yo no se que culpa quieres pagar
Aqui en el infierno de la ciudad.

Jacinto Cenobio

In the capital
I found him at a market
With his mecapal
Unloading a wagon

I said, "Godfather, I've been looking for you."
He took a sip of wine
And fell into thought.

He said, "I'm going to ask you a favor, my dear."
Don't tell anyone you've found me.
I don't want to go back there.
After all, I have nowhere to go.

Trenida, his godmother, died.
His children grew up and where are they?
I lost the harvest, burned the hut.
Without what I love the most, what's the point?

Without what I love the most, nothing is the same.
A blanket and hat will be my home.
That's why, that's why, my dear, go in peace.
And don't tell anyone I'm here.

We agreed.
I left him drinking.
I lit a memory
And I smoked it away.

I thought I saw him on his green mountain
Smiling at the wind and the horizon.
Making a face to watch the egrets pass
Toward the palm grove.
Jacinto Cenobio, Jacinto Adán,
If there was only peace in your paradise,
I don't know what guilt you want to pay
Here in the hell of the city.