La Carcacha *
(Selena)

Uno! Dos! Tres! Cuatro!
Que humareda que nos tiene ahogando
La gente se pregunta, nadie sabe qué es
Un carro viejo que viene pitando
con llantas de triciclo y el motor al reves
En la esquina yo esperando
como siempre su novia fiel
Mis amigas se están burlando
Murmuran cosas de él

No dejes de tambalear
Carcacha, poco a poquito
No nos vayas a dejar
Carcacha, paso a pasito
No dejes de tambalear
Carcacha, poco a poquito
No nos vayas a dejar

Miren muchachas que no me arrepiento
Y tampoco me a me averguenzo yo de mi galán
Aunque sea pobre y tenga un carro viejo
Me trata como reina, un hombre de verdad
Y aunque tenga una carcacha
Lo que importa es que voy con él
Tampoco será el mas guapo
Pero si es mi novio fiel
 

The Old Machine *
(Selena)

One! Two! Three! Four!
What a dense cloud of smoke that chokes us
People ask, nobody knows what it is
And old car that comes flying down
With tricycle wheel rims and the motor back to front
And me waiting on the corner
Like always, his loyal girlfriend
My friends are teasing me
They murmer things about him

Don’t stop swaying
Old machine, little by little
Don’t leave us
Old machine, step by step
Don’t stop swaying
Old machine, little by little
Don’t leave us

Look, girls, I don’t have regrets
And I’m not ashamed of my young man either
Although I’m poor and I have an old car
He treats me like a queen, a real man
And although I have an old machine
What matters is that I go with him
He’s not the most handsome of men either
But he’s my loyal boyfriend

Lyrics Translated by Alan Smith Robertson, Song Translator

Editor’s note: * According to the Real Academia Española, a Carcacha is an “old, useless or broken down machine apparatus or vehicle” (Chile, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Venezuela)

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