Antonio Aguilar — El Califa song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "El Califa" by Antonio Aguilar.
Lyrics
Señores voy a cantarles
El corrido de un caballo
Que se llamaba el Califa
Color Alazan Dorado
Su dueño el doctor Anaya
Medico muy afamado
Jamas perdio una carrera
Yo lo guado en mi recuerdo
Como que el penco salia
Ya ahi en sus patas llevaba
El prestigio de su pueblo
De aquel caballo ligero
Solo un corrido quedo
Porque una noche de luna
De su corral se salio
Muerto cayo en la ladera
Del rancho donde nacio
Y cuentan algunas gentes
Que el mero dia de San Carlos
Se oye el relincho de un cuaco
Y los grito de un jinete
Animando a su caballo
Aaaaah Califa, Aaaaah caballo
De alla del rancho de Trejo
Hasta el cerro de San Carlos
Agarren apostadores
Yano volvera el califa
Y anda por el partidero
Una potranca bonita
Criadero del mismo dueño
Viva la sierra chiquita
Y cuentan algunas gentes
Que el mero dia de San Carlos
Se oye el relincho de un cuaco
Y los grito de un jinete
Animando a su caballo
Aaaaah Califa, Aaaaah caballo
De alla del rancho de Trejo
Hasta el cerro de San Carlos
Lyrics translation
Gentlemen, I'll sing to you.
The run of a horse
Who was called The Caliph
Color Golden Sorrel
Its owner Dr. Anaya
Very famous doctor
Never lost a career
I Ford it in my memory
Like the penco came out
Already there on his legs carried
The prestige of its people
From that Light Horse
Only one run left
Because a moonlit night
From his corral came out
Dead fell on the hillside
From the ranch where he was born
And some people count
That the mere day of St. Charles
You can hear the Whink of a cuaco
And I shout them from a horseman
Cheering his horse
Aaaaah Caliph, Aaaaah horse
Beyond the Trejo Ranch
To cerro de San Carlos
Grab bettors
Yano will return the Caliph
And he goes for the partisans
A pretty filly
Breeding of the same owner
Viva La sierra chiquita
And some people count
That the mere day of St. Charles
You can hear the Whink of a cuaco
And I shout them from a horseman
Cheering his horse
Aaaaah Caliph, Aaaaah horse
Beyond the Trejo Ranch
To cerro de San Carlos