Yaguatiríca

Yaguatirica, mountain cat
Which was the female cat that gave birth to you
With that yellow fur
With black spots like a benteveo

Yaguatirica, country cat
Eyes gleaming like a boitatá
Out in the woods I go and wait for you
To meet up with caiporá

The other night I was at a dance
In a school over in Moirón
And I was a rooster strutting my stuff
For a girl from Yaguarón

I tied up my horse at daybreak
And there on the trunk of a cinnamon tree
I left my name and hers
Carved with the tip of my knife

I shot a bullet at a macurero
Out on the shores of Abrojal
And the next day I was skinning
An armadillo in Caraguatá

Nowhere do I warm the bench
I'm like a marandubá
How I wish I had two wings
And could fly through the air

Yaguatirica, mountain cat
Which was the female cat that gave birth to you
With that yellow fur
With black spots like a benteveo

I have no seat or destination
Since I left a Jasmine
Because I'm a gaucho, yaguatirica
And not a little plant from the garden