Las Favoritas Lyrics English Translation by Grupo Marca Registrada
With seeds from the guamuchil tree
I set out to make you a necklace
To tell you I love you
Please don’t forget me
At the little river’s edge
I started to think it over
The sun was going down
When I gave it to you
You said how lovely, I feel
Because now I truly am a woman
You were fifteen years old
I had barely turned sixteen
A lot of time has passed
Since the day I found you again
You wore your gold bracelets
Your necklace was also gold
Your gift, you told me
To the river I went and threw it
Two little trees have grown on my ranch
Two little trees that look like twins
And from my little house I see them all alone
Under the holy shelter and the light of the sky
They are never apart from one another
Because that’s how God willed them to be born
And with their own branches they caress each other
As if they were sweethearts in love
Little tree, little tree, beneath your shade
I will wait for the weary day to die
And when I am all alone, looking at the sky
I ask for Him to send me a companion
I feel in my soul
A great urge to cry
But I don’t cry
Because I have too much pride
You have scorned
This love that was so much yours
Just to go off
And adventure through the world
But it’s useless
It’s better you don’t come back
If you don’t want
To taste revenge
You know very well
That you don’t deserve my love
Speaking plainly
I don’t trust you anymore
Even the great ones cried
Our White Boots is gone
He couldn’t jump the fences
Like he was used to doing
He fulfilled what he had sworn
My horn never fails me
I will die on the line
I don’t want to be locked up
The federal government
They say was upset
Because he made them lose respect
And made them struggle
Well, they weren’t playing fair
Here it was proven
Federals and soldiers
Also lose their hide
Beltrán’s word
Was always highly respected
They knew it never failed
Certainly, here in Culiacán
He always respected the truce
Not like some rivals
Who never respected it
And this caused the war