Luyện nghe bài hát La Tracalera (English Translation)

"The Tracalera"*

Please remember! This translation is my personal work. It is sometimes difficult to translate word for word from Spanish to English, so it may sound awkward in one when it is perfectly natural in the other. But I think you can get the general idea!

*tracalera in Mexico can mean delinquent in
payments who moves place to place looking for work.
I left Corpus because I didn't pay the
In San Antonio I found myself with bill
Over there in the valley the guys the car
(company) looking for me
They were seeing red they never found me

At midnight I started out for
But even there I couldn't find a
In Austin I found out my parents were
for me
It had been some that I didn't
even send five bucks

That is why now call me Tracalera
All over Texas, they let me rest
Let's see if in Houston, I can earn some
And come to pay them even though it means
I don't

There in Dallas I found a man
"Come out to Waco, I've got some cash"
But the law was out for him
The next day they him with contraband

in Victoria the police stopped me
for a few (forged) and a fine that I owed
I called out to the (home),
I want to to my sister, but
she's sleeping, and my niece the phone

is why they now call me Tracalera
All over Texas, they let me rest
Let's see if in Houston, I can some money
And I'll come to pay them though it means
I sleep.