Carlos Mejía Godoy
Terencio Acahualinca lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1973
- Length
- 3:21
De chiripa conocí a Terencio
By chance, I met Terencio
A Terencio Acahualinca
Terencio Acahualinca
Ciudadano que sin subir al cielo
A citizen who without rising to the sky
Es un buen paracaidista
Is a good parachutist
El sistema lo tiro al anillo
The system threw him into the ring
Que circunda la ciudad
That surrounds the city
Pero no le falta galillo para gritar su verdad
But he’s got the guts to shout his truth
Pero no le falta galillo para gritar su verdad
But he’s got the guts to shout his truth
No soy leido ni estudiado en ninguna ciencia
I'm neither learned nor studied in any science
Pero ya estoy posgraduado por la experencia
But I've already graduated through experience
Un master de al miseria me hizo doctor
A master of misery made me a doctor
Soy licenciado en pobreza
I hold a degree in poverty
Master en desnutrición
Master in malnutrition
Key vocabulary
- ninguna
- noneA2
- verdad
- truthA2
- ya
- alreadyA2
- chiripa
- luck
- conocí
- I knew
- terencio
- unknown
- acahualinca
- unknown
- ciudadano
- citizenB1
- cielo
- skyA2
- buen
- goodA1
About this song
Carlos Mejía Godoy is a Nicaraguan musician, composer, and singer-songwriter associated with testimonial song, also called nueva canción. He is one of the main representatives of the movement in Nicaragua.