"La Cucaracha"
Traditional Mexican folk songYa murió la cucaracha.
Y la llevan a enterrar
Entre cuatro zopilotes
Y un ratón de sacristán.
Y la llevan a enterrar
Entre cuatro zopilotes
Y un ratón de sacristán.
The cockroach just died,
And they carried him off to bury him
Among four buzzards
And the sexton's mouse.
And they carried him off to bury him
Among four buzzards
And the sexton's mouse.
La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
Ya no puede caminar;
Porque no tiene, porque le falta,
Marijuana que fumar.
La cucaracha, that little cockroach,
Now he can't go travelling;
Beause he doesn't have, because he lacks,
Marijuana to smoke.
La Cucaracha is a fun, lively song that has multiple levels of meaning.
Numerous variants exist, with many more verses than are shown here.
Several popular variants allude to
smoking marijuana,
and the title indicates a reference to a cockroach (thus, a reefer roach).
However, it is most often understood that the term cockroach refers to two things:
Pancho Villa's vehicle, and a code name for
a soldadera (female revolutionary).
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