Historia Los Diablitos (English Translation) Lyrics

I never thought that my life
Was going to be joyful, was going to be happy
When I began to live it
My dear father walked away from me

He left and left me alone
With my mother I had to suffer
Going through many hardships
But it’s never too late and now I am happy

And before leaving
My good father bought an accordion
So that my brother
Someday he would learn to play it

But you know
That my little brother never learned
And I learned
And vallenato grew in my soul

I started staying up late since I was very young
Because since I was a child I learned to work
I had to party with my friends
Some paid me with affection
And others gave me what they wanted to give

I started earning a few cents
But my old lady wouldn’t let me get there
And I hid money in another pocket
I wanted to keep a few cents
But mom knew how to confiscate me

It made me angry and left me broke
I was very young and couldn’t think
That my mommy all those little coins
She was going to spend them on food
For me, for her and for my little siblings when

My father has not been bad
Despite one day he left me alone
Not because he wanted to
It’s just life, it’s love

He fell in love with another
And left my mother, I don’t blame him
Because one thinks one thing
And another very different thing feels the heart

He didn’t plan to abandon his good children
He didn’t have in mind to have another home
But a new love came to his soul and stayed
And that killed my dreams of carrying on

Because when I was little
I always saw him coming from work
And I would run out like a little crazy
In search of my dear daddy
With open arms he used to wait for me

Those beautiful moments are gone
They’re gone and they’ll never come back
In the afternoons I used to wait for my daddy
It would get dark and he wouldn’t appear
I couldn’t take it anymore and I would start crying

That’s why I ask all parents
Not to leave their children like that
Because that’s a very big suffering
I tell you because I lived it
And perhaps God may punish
The parents who behave like that