Текст и перевод песни Sergio Galleguillo - Recuerdo Cuando Era Chango

Recuerdo Cuando Era Chango

Recuerdo cuando era chango,
Cuando en mis pagos vivía;
Correteando por los campos,
Las penas no conocía.

Las veces queme sobaron
Por no hacer caso a mi vieja;
Pasaba yuteando burros,
En el rigor de la siesta.

Por andar hondeando ututus
Mi madre me castigaba;
En esas tardes de fuego
Que ni los diablos andaban.

¡Ah! vida si yo pudiera
Changuito volver a ser
Vivir sin preocupaciones,
Engaños no conocer.

En un descuido de mamá
Pa' la laguna rumbeaba;
Volvía los ojos hinchados
Porque al chamuco jugaba.

En las noches de verano,
Cuando la luna brillaba,
Golpeando una caja vieja
Una vidala entonaba.

Ahora que voy pa' viejo
De mi mamá no me olvido
Si yo pudiera pagarle
Todo lo que ella ha sufrido.

¡Ah! vida si yo pudiera
Changuito volver a ser
Vivir sin preocupaciones,
Engaños no conocer.

I Remember When I Was a Boy

I remember when I was a boy,
When I lived in my hometown;
Running through the fields,
I didn't know any sorrows.

The times I got whipped
For not listening to my old woman;
I spent my time herding donkeys,
In the heat of the afternoon.

For playing with tops
My mother would punish me;
On those hot afternoons
When even the devils wouldn't come out.

Oh! life if I could
Be a boy again,
To live without worries,
Not to know deceptions.

When my mother wasn't looking
I would head for the lagoon;
I would come back with my eyes swollen
Because I played in the mud.

On summer nights,
When the moon shone,
Beating on an old box
I would sing a vidala.

Now that I am getting old
I don't forget my mother,
If I could pay her back
For everything she has suffered.

Oh! life if I could
Be a boy again,
To live without worries,
Not to know deceptions.