Paroles et traduction Lupe Tijerina - Las tres mujeres

Las tres mujeres

Por ahí dice 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 esas muertes
Santos Valdez se llamaba
A las tres por separado
Les decía que las amaba
Pero a ninguna quería
Nada mas las engañaba.
Lucita era de la costa
Del Charco Azul Maria Inés
Estela era de Reynosa
Las mas brava de las tres
Decía yo pierdo la vida
Antes que a Santos Valdez.
Dicen que en Laguna Seca
Cuando la gente pasaba
Se oían gritos de mujeres
Cuando ya 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 allá murió en el panteón.
Lucita era de la costa
Del Charco Azul Maria Inés
Estela era de Reynosa
Las mas brava de las tres
Decía yo pierdo la vida
Antes que a Santos Valdez.

The Three Women

There's a legend told around
That in the Canales ranch
Three women appear
Who were rivals in life
They stabbed each other
Out there in the mesquite thicket.
The cause of those deaths
Was Santos Valdez
To the three separately
He said he loved them
But he didn't love any of them
He just fooled them.
Lucita was from the coast
Maria Ines from Charco Azul
Estela was from Reynosa
The bravest of the three
She said I'll lose my life
Before I lose Santos Valdez.
They say that in Laguna Seca
When people were passing by
They heard the cries of women
When the sun was already setting
They were those brave women
Who were still suffering after death.
Santos Valdez went to their graves
To ask for their forgiveness
He said his prayers
With all his heart
And who would have thought
That he died there in the cemetery.
Lucita was from the coast
Maria Ines from Charco Azul
Estela was from Reynosa
The bravest of the three
She said I'll lose my life
Before I lose Santos Valdez.