Mercedes [English translation]

Mercedes told me, Mercedes told me,

Mercedes told me that I'm a good person.

Having the virtue of knowing Mercedes,

I told Mercedes "let's go to Cartagena".

"Ado, I'm not going with you.

Ado, I am troubled,

because you live ashamed about your wife and your children."

( And I cry and cry... tears)

I'm a graduate, for you it's nothing.

I have experience, Mercedes, I'm a professor.(2Xs)

And to praise you, I'll become a composer for you,

You'll see Mercedes, you have a secure life.

I can be plenty, beloved , don't keep telling me

"I don't give or sell myself, Ado,

I will leave this ranch married".

I'll give you Mercedes, the opportunity

to travel by car across the coast of the Carribean Sea,(2Xs)

I will take you to get to know La Popa, La Boquilla,

We'll leave for the Hotel Caribe on our honeymoon.

Yesterday you said "I love you",

today you ask me to forget you,

After you kill the tiger, Merce,

you go after the hide.(2Xs)