ok i grew up hearing that song withe the english translation of the cucaracha cannot run ithad a broken transmission,roto el radiater,trantonado el generator(broken generator),???roto or someting was tore. i cant remenber the rest. any help would be great. the best way is to email me in order to get an answer to me as o do not usually return back to sites untill i get something of usefulness from it, me email is deleted thanks for any help you can give me. another old song was about a mother inlaw jumping the wood pile and got the mumps donot remember the rest but it was a cute song that i can remember.
La Cucaracha is one of those “popular” (i.e., nobody can remember who the original author was) which have a ton of different lyrics. In any case, you can search for them and I’ve asked a mod to break your email - you really, really shouldn’t post it in message boards unless you like spam.
If you can’t be bothered to come back to a site where you posted a message, then you have little reason to be here.
But, but, it’s a great scam to fish for email addresses!
I wanted a link to click, or something to download.
I always heard the song as
La cucaracha la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque le falta, porque le falta
Marijuana que fumar
which translates to
The cockroach, the cockroach
Can no longer walk
Because he doesn’t have, because he doesn’t have
Marijuana to smoke.
It doesn’t make too much sense, though I was told that La Cucaracha was the name of bar or something similar in Mexico and did not refer to the insect.
There is a second verse that starts
Algo que me da risa
Pancho Villa sin camisa
which means something that makes me laugh (is) Panco Villa without his shirt.
Pretty much the same version I know, taught to me by a Spaniard. Only difference was “porque no tiene” to replace one of the faltas, and I think it was “pa’ fumar” the way he taught me the end.
That matches the version taught to me by someone of indeterminate Spaniard status:
What are the words to “La Cucaracha”?
Have we become so jaded, so hardened, so distrustful of our fellow man that we automatically suspect them of being scammers, when they just ask for our email addresses?
Just to set an example, I am willing to give him my name, home address, phone and social security number. At least there is one of us here that still retains the milk of human kindness!
All you have to do, ralphtaff, is send $400 dollars to my good friend General Osmandiah, who needs the money so he can pay the fine that the regime has imposed on all ban accounts above 1 million dollars owned by all lovers of democracy. Then, we can split the money, and you can get my email address at the same time.
Actually, Wikipedia has the exact version I was taught: