Hopa Hopa Hopa [Canción Criolla] - Carlos Gardel traduction en anglais

Hopa Hopa Hopa [Canción Criolla]

Cuasi anochecido, cerquita 'e mi rancho
Cuando con mis penas conversaba a solas
Sentí ayer ruidaje, como de pezuñas
Y el grito campero de: "hopa, hopa, hopa"

Salí, y en lo escuro, vide a uno de poncho
Llevando a los tientos, lazo y boleadoras
Que al tranco espacioso de un matungo zaino
Arreaba animales que parecían sombras

"Párese, aparcero; párese y disculpe"
Le dije: "¿qué bichos lleva en esa tropa?
"Voy pa' la tablada de los gauchos zonzos
A venderles miles de esperanzas gordas"

Si el mercao promete, y engolosinao
Vuelve pa' estos pagos en procuras de otra
No olvide que tengo mis potreros llenos
Y que hasta 'e regalo se las cedo todas

Sonrióse el tropero, que era el desengaño
Taloneó al matungo derecho a las sombras
Y aún traía a mis oídos el viento en la noche
Su grito campero de: "hopa, hopa, hopa"
Y aún traía a mis oídos el viento en la noche
Su grito campero de: "hopa, hopa, hopa"

Hopa Hopa Hopa [Gaucho Song]

It was close to nightfall, near my ranch
When I was talking to my sorrows alone
Yesterday I heard a noise, like hooves
And the gaucho cry: "hopa, hopa, hopa"

I went out, and in the darkness, I saw a poncho-clad man
Carrying a lasso and bolas on the reins
At the slow trot of a bay horse
He was herding animals that looked like shadows

"Stop, partner; stop and excuse me"
I said: "What animals do you have in that herd?"
"I'm going to the market of the foolish gauchos
To sell them thousands of fat hopes"

If the market is promising, and he gets greedy
He'll come back to these parts in search of another
Don't forget that my pastures are full
And that I'll give them all to you as a gift

The cattleman smiled, who was Disillusionment
He spurred his horse straight into the shadows
And the wind in the night still carried to my ears
His gaucho cry: "hopa, hopa, hopa"
And the wind in the night still carried to my ears
His gaucho cry: "hopa, hopa, hopa"