La Guerra Verdulera
La Trinca
The Vegetable War
Towards France like an arrow
Swallowing miles our truck
Devouring the road
March roaring like a lion
How good our orange smells
Our pepper and our lemon!
How garlic and onion stink!
No one can stand in this truck!
Since they don't let us fish for tuna
Let's bring vegetables to the common market
Run, accelerate, because there in La Jonquera
Is the border and we'll have to pass
"Good morning" "how are you?
Welcome to the border of Le Perthus"
"I am the first gendarme
I am the second, I am the third
Let's see the documentation.
Your green card is faded
Your passport is expired
Africa eats the Pyrenees
Your green card is faded
Your passport is expired
But the gendarmerie is in a good mood
"Go on, go on, you can pass now"
We are already in France, the worst has happened
Look at those peasants hitchhiking
Oh Ramón, they look at us with aversion!
Oh Julián! Oh, they will beat us here!
"Where are you going with this truck
Where are you going, you big pig
You will not pass the bridge of Avignon
The zucchini goes to Berlin
The peach goes to London
The escarole goes to Liverpool
And the eggplant to Istanbul
And then we have the plan
To go all the way to Amsterdam
That the Iberian cucumber there
Has more demand than here
"Stop" "it's over! Stop!
We will burn all this vegetable at once
Let's plant a bean like in Valencia"
Don't touch my pear and neither the zucchini
Look, if I get angry, I'll cause a scene
We are going to scorch the truck
The apples will be good in the oven
Look, if I unhook the musket
I'm worse than Agustina de Aragón
The vegetable war explodes
And vitamin-rich is the ammunition
The carrot is a projectile, the eggplant a missile
They shout: "Santiago and close Spain!"
"Long live France! Go, children of the homeland!"
What a stew! What a compote!
What a salad they have stirred up there!
Enter, enter
To the community
You will see, you will see
How much fun you will have!