Lodo que sabe brillar [English translation]

If you have money, your friend the banker

will invite you to have a bite to eat,1

if you don't have any money, you're a bother,

he won't attend to you. [x2]

Almost everything can be bought with money,

above all else the mud that can shine2,

the mud that can shine.

If you're well dress and drive a sports car,

you're everyone's friend, they call you 'sir',

and if one day you ask them for bus fare,

none will lend it to you, what a shame.

Almost everything can be bought with money,

above all else the mud that can shine,

the mud that can shine.

If you have money, your friend the banker

will invite you to have a bite to eat,

if you don't have any money, you're a bother,

he won't attend to you.

Almost everything can be bought with money,

above all else the mud that can shine,

the mud that can shine.

1. lit. '...will invite you to eat'2. 'mud that [knows] how to shine' is the literal translation, it means that even unsavory/worthless things can be seen as valuable, depending on who perceives it as such.

• Artist:Joan Sebastian
• Album:Pedro Parrandas [1972]