Noble Engaño
Los Cadetes de Linares
Noble Deception
Joaquín was 15 years old, Pedro was 16,
They were going to the United States, they left Monterrey,
They had great hopes, from all they heard,
Of reaching Houston, Texas, and starting to work
Joaquín found it easy to cross the Rio Bravo,
The river was very swollen, and he couldn't make it,
Pedro cried over the failure, almost lost his mind,
Seeing his brother drown, in that treacherous river
It's been a year since my brother, was taken by heaven,
My poor parents don't know, he never made it to Houston,
I pretend to be him, when I write to my parents,
I don't tell them the truth, they think he's alive
(after a long absence from my parents,
I return to tell them everything I keep inside my chest,
My mother cried, hugged and kissed me,
“You've finally come back, my son,” and my tears fell,
And when asked about Joaquín, I had to keep pretending,
To avoid seeing her suffer)
Joaquín found it easy to cross the Rio Bravo,
The river was very swollen, and he couldn't make it,
Pedro cried over the failure, almost lost his mind,
Seeing his brother drown, in that treacherous river
It's been a year since my brother, was taken by heaven,
My poor parents don't know, he never made it to Houston,
I pretend to be him, when I write to my parents,
I don't tell them the truth, they think he's alive
