El Arracadas

Like the shadow of a ghost at night
Crossing mountains, ravines, and villages
Goes a sad man riding his horse
His dog accompanies him tracking the fields

Everyone says there comes the earring man
He wears sideburns, cowboy jacket
Black cowboy hat and leather pants
With a calm look searching for some rustler

I am going to fulfill a sacred oath
When he left his hut he said to his mother
I am going to look for that traitor who up on the hill
Cowardly and mercilessly killed my father

Some whispers of prayer were heard
When a mother prays to heaven for her son
Then a horse gallops away neighing
And there in the ravine his steps were lost

And that traitor whom the earring man was looking for
They found him dead hanging in a pasture
While another man, his dog, and his horse
Have never been seen again, lost his whereabouts

There in the darkness of a hut a sob is heard
It's from a mother who is abandoned
She cries for a man who listens to her from heaven
And for an absent son of whom nothing is known
And for an absent son of whom nothing is known