Los Olímpicos [English translation]

New Year's Eve is coming,

we celebrate Christmas,

the rehearsals get complicated

preparing Carnival.

New Year's Eve is near

at Netherlands, at Canada,

the boys, frozen,

remembering Carnival.

Uruguayans, uruguayans,

what became of you,

through the most distant neighbourhoods

of Colombes or Amsterdam.

Before we were the champions,

we went to defeat them,

today we are the rascals

who crash the party.

Inmigrant worker

is the new profession,

whoever gets caught without papers

they send him back in a plane.

Uruguayans, uruguayans,

what became of you,

through the most distant neighbourhoods

of Colombes or Amsterdam.

Yesterday I got a letter

straight from New York

of my friend Horacio,

he works as a welder.

Now he has a colachata, 1

a carpet and heating,

it seems insane but,

he's getting worse.

He misses our people

who talks at you without disregarding,

he misses the air of the harbor

when it announces the storm,

and however he remembers

the things in half,

he forgets the things he'd been through

before going there.

Uruguayans, uruguayans,

what became of you,

through the most distant neighbourhoods

of Colombes or Amsterdam.

Returning has no sense,

neither to live there,

the one who left isn't that smart,

but neither that stupid.

That's why if someone flies off,

what can we tell him?

don't forget about us,

and be very happy.

Uruguayans, uruguayans,

what became of you,

through the most distant neighbourhoods

of Colombes or Amsterdam.

1. lit. "snub trunk" A slang for an american car

• Artist:Jaime Roos
• Album:Aquello (1981)