Paroles et traduction Antonio Tarragó Ros - El Rock

El Rock

El Rock (Chamamé)

A la juventud de ahora
Lo que les pasa no se
Que prefieren rocanrol
En lugar de chamamé

Ya no tienen rimación
Que por modas extranjeras
Pisotee la tradición
Una música cualquiera

Cuando este baile comienza
Las mujeres y varones
Empiezan a dar patadas
A tirarse manotones
Te juro me dio calor
Cuando mi hermana la ñata
Bailando el rocanrol
Se le perdió la alpargata

Se me hace la petitera
Y anda toda despeinada
Y ahora usa la pollera
Bien cortita y ajustada

Si conociera el autor
Que esa música compuso
Se lo envío a tata Dios
En el satélite ruso

Cuando este baile comienza
Las mujeres y varones
Empiezan a dar patadas
A tirarse manotones,
Te juro me dio calor
Cuando mi hermana la Ñata
Bailando el rocanrol
Se le perdió la alpargata

The Rock

The Rock (Chamamé)

To the youth of today,
What's gotten into you?
Why do you prefer rock and roll
To chamamé?

Your music has no rhyme or reason.
You've let foreign fashions
Trample on tradition,
With your mediocre noise.

When this dance begins,
The women and men
Start kicking and punching each other,
As if they've lost their minds.
I tell you, I was ashamed
When I saw my sister,
Dancing the rock and roll,
And losing her sandal in the process.

She's become a hooligan,
Her hair a mess.
Now she wears her skirts
Shockingly short and tight.

If I could ever find the man
Who wrote this so-called music,
I'd send him to God,
On the Russian satellite.

When this dance begins,
The women and men
Start kicking and punching each other,
As if they've lost their minds.
I tell you, I was ashamed
When I saw my sister,
Dancing the rock and roll,
And losing her sandal in the process.