La empalizada [English translation]

If it was your mother's fault

it was more your father's.

If it was your mother's fault

it was more your father's.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

They told me they had seen you with

your skirt tucked up

beside a path

in the shade of a cornfield

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

With the lune as witness that bot kissed you.

If what you did is a sin

I swear to you that it's venial.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Water for me, water for you

If it was your mothr's fault, it was more your father's.

If it was your mothr's fault, it was more your father's.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

At the end the story was done

with the girl and the boy.

In the end we all do it

the pops and the mums

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

As you see, as you see,

all of us do it as well!

As you see, as you see,

all us negros drink coffee.

Ay, ay, the fence.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

If it was your mother's fault

it was more your father's.

If it was your mother's fault

it was more your father's

more his fault, more his fault,

it was moreyour father's fault.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Don't tell them anything,

have a laugh at them,

because you're not to blame,

because everybody did it,

your father and your mother

what innocents they were

if we all are born

from that same game.

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay

our father and yur mother

they got taken too.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Ay, ay, ay at the edge of the fence.

Your father and your mother...

with the same game...

Ay...

Your father and your mother

and that same game

They too were

flesh and blood1

Ay, ay, ay...

1. literally; of flesh and bone"