El tata esta viejo [English translation]

The dad is old, I saw him last night

Making his cigarrette with difficulty

The lightened cigarrette trembled in his lips

Like a tuco tuco1 in the dark

He doesn't get up early, to drink mate

He doesn't go galloping, he just trots

He spend the time near the old door

Looking the path going and going

I remember my dad in his young years

Healthy as a tala, as a ñandubay 2

Today he looks like a willow, he's all bent down

What a grief if someday I miss him

The dad is old, if someday he must go

Hope he doesn't realize, just calmly

I ask you God to turn off his life

Like a cigarrette alone without dragging

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuco-tuco2. Species of trees

• Artist:Hernán Figueroa Reyes