Los Tucanes de Tijuana

 

 

 

 

Mis tres animales

 

 

 

 

Vivo de tres animales
que quiero como
a mi vida, con ellos gano dinero
y ni les comopro comida.
Son animales muy finos:
mi perico, mi gallo y mi chiva.

En California y Nevada,
en Texas y en Arizona
y tambien en Chicago
tengo unas cuantas personas
que venden mis animales
mas que hamburguesas en el McDonalds.

Aprendi a vivir la vida
hasta que tuve dinero,
y no niego que fui pobre,
tampoco que fui burrero.
Ahora soy un gran Señor
mis mascotas codician los gueros.

Traigo cerquita la muerte
pero no me se rajar,
se que me busca el gobierno
hasta debajo del mar,
pero para todo hay maña
mi escondite no han podido hallar.

El dinero en la abundancia
tambien es muy peligroso,
por eso yo me lo gasto
con mis amigos gustoso
y las mujeres, la neta
ven dinero y se les van los ojos.

Dicen que mis animales
van acabar con la gente,
pero no es obligacion
que se les pongan enfrente,
mis animales son bravos
si no saben torear pues no le entren.

 

I live off three animals,
That I love like my own life,
With them I win money,
I don’t even buy them food,
They are very fine animals:
My parrot, my rooster and my goat.

In California and Nevada,
In Texas and Arizona,
Even up in Chicago,
I have some people,
They sell my animals,
More than McDonald’s sells hamburgers.

I learned to live life,
Until I had money,
And I don’t deny I was poor,
Not even that I was Burrero,
Now I’m a great man,
The Americans want my pets.

Death is near me,
But I don’t know how to surrender,
I know the government is after me,
Even under the sea,
But where there’s a will there’s a way,
And they haven’t found my hiding place.

Too much money,
Is also very dangerous,
That's why I spend it,
Happily with my friends
And women, its true,
Notice money and get excited.

They say that my animals,
Are going to finish with the people,
But there’s no obligation,
To put in front of them,
My animals are rough,
If you can’t handle them, don’t try.

 

 

 

In Mis Tres Animales, figurative language is abundant. Upon hearing the song, one might have no idea that the actual meaning of the song is drug dealing. Each animal stands for a certain drug: parrot is cocaine, rooster is marijuana, and goat is heroine. Perhaps the author chose these symbols to represent drugs so t hat children listening to the song would not really know what it was about and maybe think that it really is about animals. He is basically saying that his drugs are selling really well in the US…even more than McDonald’s burgers. At the end, he states that people say his drugs are going to kill its users, but he thinks that if they can’t handle them, they shouldn’t even try them.

 

picture taken from:

http://www.tucanes.com.mx/espanol/photography/large/new/001.JPG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOMEPAGE

"Marisco"

"Pacas de a Kilo"