Paroles et traduction Eliseo Robles - El Ojo de Vidrio

El Ojo de Vidrio

Voy a cantar el corrido, del salteador del camino
Que se llamaba Porfirio, llamabanle Ojo de Vidrio
Lo tuerto no le importaba, pues no fallaba en el tiro

Se disfrazaba de arriero, para asaltar los poblados
Burlándose del gobierno, mataba muchos soldados
Nomas blanqueaban los cerros, de puros encalzonados

Ahí viene el ojo de vidrio, gritaba el pueblo asustado
Y a las mujeres buscaba, mirando por todos lados
Dejaba pueblos enteros, llenos de puros colgados

Después de tantas hazañas, al verlo que se paseaba
Con su caballo tordillo, frente de la plaza de armas
Lo acribillaron a tiros, sin que le pasara nada

Decían que estaba forrado, con un chaleco de malla
Las balas le botaban, mientras el se carcajeaba
Se fue tranquilo a caballo, sin que nadie le estorbara

Bajaron 3 campesinos, de allá del cerro escondido
Traian al "Ojo de Vidrio", picado de un coralillo
Venia ya muerto el bandido, sobre el caballo tordillo

The Glass Eye

I'm going to sing you a ballad about a highwayman
His name was Porfirio, they called him Glass Eye
His missing eye didn't matter, he was a dead shot

He dressed up as a muleteer to rob the towns
He mocked the government and killed many soldiers
The hills would turn white, from all the hanged men's underpants

Here comes Glass Eye, cried the frightened town
And he'd search for women, looking all around
He left entire towns, full of hanged men

After so many feats, watching him stroll
On his piebald horse, in front of the plaza de armas
They riddled him with bullets, but nothing happened to him

They said he was armored with a chainmail vest
The bullets bounced off, while he laughed
He rode away calmly on his horse, unmolested

Three peasants came down from the hidden hill
They brought Glass Eye, bitten by a coral snake
The bandit was already dead on the piebald horse