La Cucaracha (Single Version)

When a fellow loves a maiden

And that maiden doesn't love him

It's the same as when a bald man

Finds a comb upon the highway

The cucaracha

The cucaracha

Doesn't want to travel on

Because she hasn't

Oh no

She hasn't

Marihuana for to smoke

All the maidens are of pure gold

All the married girls are silver

All the widows are of copper

And old women merely tin

My neighbor across the highway

Used to be called doa clara

And if she has not expired

Likely that's her name tomorrow

All the girls up at las vegas

Are most awful tall and skinny

But they're worse for plaintive pleading

Than the souls in purgatory

All the girls here in the city

Don't know how to give you kisses

While the ones from albuquerque

Stretch their necks to avoid misses

All the girls from mexico

Are as pretty as a flower

And they talk so very sweetly

Fill your heart quite up with love

One thing makes me laugh most hearty

Pancho villa with no shirt on

Now the carranzistas beat it

Because villa's men are coming

Fellow needs an automobile

If he undertakes the journey

To the place to which zapata

Ordered the famous convention