Lila Downs
Arboles de la barranca lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2006
- Genre
- Cumbia
- Length
- 2:53
Árboles de la barranca
Trees of the ravine
Por qué no han enverdecido
Why haven't they turned green?
Es que no los ha regado
Is it that they haven't been watered
Con agua del río florido
With water from the blooming river?
Me puse a amar a un hombre así
I started to love a man like that
Con la ilusión de amar
With the hope of loving
De esos tres que van pasando
Among those three who are passing by
¿Cuál te gusta, valedora?
Which one do you like, brave one?
Es el que ahí va de blanco
It's the one in white that's walking there
Me parece a mí el mejor
He seems to me the best
Me puse a amar a un hombre así
I started to love a man like that
Con la ilusión de amar
With the hope of love
Si porque me ves tomando
If you see me drinking
Paseándome en la pradera
Strolling in the meadow
Lo que sí, yo te aseguro
What I can assure you,
Que te quiero de a deveras
Is that I truly love you.
Me puse a amar a un hombre así
I started to love a man like that
Con la ilusión de amar
With the hope of love.
Ya me voy a la barranca
I'm heading to the ravine now
A sembrar surcos de arroz
To sow rice furrows.
Yo te enseñaré, chamaco
I'll show you, kid
Como se mancuernan dos
How two can be intertwined
Me puse a amar a un hombre así
I started to love a man like this
Con la ilusión de amar
With the hope of loving
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Key vocabulary
- qué
- whatA2
- árboles
- treesA1
- barranca
- ravineB2
- enverdecido
- greened
- regado
- watering
- agua
- waterA1
- florido
- floridC1
- puse
- putB1
- amar
- to love; to like or be fond ofB2
- pasando
- passingB1
About this song
Lila Downs is a Mexican-born singer-songwriter and performer. She makes Indigenous Mexican-rooted music that blends North American jazz and Latin American folk, and is known for albums such as Ofrenda and for receiving Grammy and Latin Grammy awards.