Los Mandados Vicente Fernández (English Translation) Lyrics

I crossed the Rio Grande swimming
Without caring about two borders
The migra threw me out
And I ended up in Nogales
I entered through another border
And they threw me to Juárez

From there I went to Tamaulipas
And I sneaked in through Laredo
I disguised myself as a gringo
And dyed my hair blonde
And since I didn’t speak English
They rejected me again

The migra caught me
Let’s say three hundred times
But it never tamed me
It ran errands for me
The blows it gave me
I got back at its countrymen

I entered through Mexicali
And San Luis Colorado
I crossed all the lines
Of contraband and soaked
But I never gave up
I came and went to the other side

I know all the lines
Paths, rivers and canals
From Tijuana to Reynosa
From Matamoros to Juárez
From Piedras Negras to El Paso
And from Agua Prieta to Nogales

The migra caught me
Let’s say three hundred times
But it never tamed me
It ran errands for me
The blows it gave me
I got back at its countrymen