Bamboleo/Caballo Viejo [English translation]

Bamboleiro, bamboleira

Because I have learnt to live my life this way

Bamboleiro, bamboleira

Because I have learnt to live my life this way

when love

arrives/comes in such way

One can not realize/perceive

the carutal becomes green again

and guamanchito flourishes

and the rope bursts

when love

arrives in such way

One must not be blamed for

Desiring each other has not a right time

Neither a date in calendar

when desires meet

They give to the horse the grass

because he is old and tired (he=the horse,in poetic sense)

But they can't realize that

when they slacken the reins of a captive heart

this heart becomes a runaway horse

And if the old horse finds a sorrel filly

His heart rushes

and it doesn't matter the falseta

and he doesn't obey his bit

Not even a false rein can stop him

Bamboleiro, bamboleira

Because I have learnt to live my life this way

Bamboleiro, bamboleira

Because I have learnt to live my life this way

They give to the horse the grass

because he is old and tired

But they can't realize that

when they slacken the reins of a captive heart

this heart becomes a runaway horse

The colt gives time to the time

because the colt has all the time ahead

but an old horse cannot

permit a flower - which one gives him - to pass him by

because after this life of his

there's not another opportunity

Bamboleiro, bamboleira

Because I have learnt to live my life this way

Bamboleiro, bamboleira

Because I have learnt to live my life this way