Viene la Muerte Echando Rasero [English translation]

Here comes Death scything

She takes the young, also the old

Death comes indiscriminately taking*

Not a single passenger escapes her.**

Not even the prayer escapes her

Not the drunk for being a drinker

Not the assassin for being a killer

We all will have to go to the graveyard.

Here comes Death scything

She takes the young, also the old

Death comes indiscriminately taking

Not a single passenger escapes her.

Bishops die, the prophets die

Vicars and confessors die

They cannot even be cured by the doctors

The ampules are useless

Singers die, the poets die.

The rich and the peasant die

She also takes with her the saddler

And the carpenter with certain advantage

For he himself makes his own box***

Here comes Death scything

She takes the young, also the old

Death comes indiscriminately taking

Not a single passenger escapes her.

Death has been such a killer

That she carries with her the labourer,

The married person dies, the single one dies

Christians of high rank die,

Before she comes, let us drink beer

To the grave we go marching

We go marching without hesitation,

Very well tucked in a box

Being carried by four people****

• Artist:Lila Downs
• Album:Balas y Chocolate