Viene la Muerte Echando Rasero [English translation]
Viene la Muerte Echando Rasero [English translation]
Here comes Death scything
She takes the young, also the old
Death comes indiscriminately taking*
Not a single passenger escapes her.**
Not even the prayer escapes her
Not the drunk for being a drinker
Not the assassin for being a killer
We all will have to go to the graveyard.
Here comes Death scything
She takes the young, also the old
Death comes indiscriminately taking
Not a single passenger escapes her.
Bishops die, the prophets die
Vicars and confessors die
They cannot even be cured by the doctors
The ampules are useless
Singers die, the poets die.
The rich and the peasant die
She also takes with her the saddler
And the carpenter with certain advantage
For he himself makes his own box***
Here comes Death scything
She takes the young, also the old
Death comes indiscriminately taking
Not a single passenger escapes her.
Death has been such a killer
That she carries with her the labourer,
The married person dies, the single one dies
Christians of high rank die,
Before she comes, let us drink beer
To the grave we go marching
We go marching without hesitation,
Very well tucked in a box
Being carried by four people****
- Artist:Lila Downs
- Album:Balas y Chocolate