Latest / Slow Spanish Language / 94 - The Song: El Santo Cachón by Los Embajadores Vallenatos
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- 0:12Speaker 2: Hola, hola, hola, hola. Bienvenidos al podcast. Slow Spanish Language Podcast.
- 0:16Speaker 2: And in this podcast we practice Spanish listening. And today
- 0:21Speaker 2: is a very popular song in our culture, El Santo Cachón. Yes,
- 0:26Speaker 2: one of my listeners wrote me and asked me, Hey, Dennis,
- 0:29Speaker 2: do you know the song El Santo Cachón? Yes, and
- 0:33Speaker 2: I said, of course, I want that you do that song.
- 0:36Speaker 2: He asked me for this song. Y dije, sí,¿ por
- 0:39Speaker 2: qué no? Creo que es una canción muy cool y
- 0:42Speaker 2: es interesante porque no he hecho esa canción antes. Sí,
- 0:46Speaker 2: si no lo sabes, recuerda Los Caminos de la Vida
- 0:48Speaker 2: en el episodio 69. Es muy interesante porque suena similar, pero
- 0:56Speaker 2: son dos canciones diferentes. Así que recuerda que el texto
- 1:00Speaker 2: está en la descripción de este episodio y vamos a
- 1:02Speaker 2: leer la canción, traducirla y explicarla, ¿vale? Let's read first
- 1:07Speaker 2: the song. Ok, guys? And remember that you can support
- 1:11Speaker 2: me on PayPal and buy me a coffee. The links
- 1:13Speaker 2: are in the description of this episode. Are you ready?
- 1:17Speaker 2: I am ready. Let's start. Me dijeron que te vieron
- 1:22Speaker 2: te pillaron el otro día sabroseando con un señor que
- 1:30Speaker 2: no era yo. Me contaron los que te vieron En
- 1:35Speaker 2: una forma, Dios mío, que uy, mejor no digo. No
- 1:41Speaker 2: fue uno, ni fueron dos, fueron tres. Los amigos que
- 1:47Speaker 2: te vieron con él moliendo caña. Ay, mientras yo, muy solitario,
- 1:56Speaker 2: como el llanero, porque tú a mí me dijiste que
- 2:01Speaker 2: ibas de viaje. donde tus viejos del alma y ahora
- 2:08Speaker 2: dices tú que no es así que ese era un
- 2:13Speaker 2: primo que estaba allá que te invitó a salir que
- 2:18Speaker 2: te dio pena decir que no que te perdone yo
- 2:22Speaker 2: que te perdone como si fuera yo el santo cachón
- 2:29Speaker 2: mira mi cara ves yo soy un hombre Y no
- 2:33Speaker 2: hay que andar repartiendo perdón. Ajuíciate, mamá. Busque el juicio.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Busque el juicio, muchacha. Ajuíciate. Yo me iba a casar contigo.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Por poco meto la pata. Y ahora no puedo ni verte.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Puedo hacer un disparate. Tu primito sí te quiere. Que
- 2:56Speaker 2: te esprima. De mí no podrás quejarte porque te divertiste
- 3:00Speaker 2: tan bien. Sé que hay cosas en la vida que
- 3:03Speaker 2: un hombre sale ganando cuando las deja perder. Entre el
- 3:07Speaker 2: cielo y la tierra, dice un dicho, que no existe
- 3:13Speaker 2: nada oculto y todo se llega a saber. Te pillaron,
- 3:17Speaker 2: te caíste, si de pronto te perdono. Tendría que aguantar callado,
- 3:22Speaker 2: tendría que aguantar callado si tú lo vuelves a hacer. Mujer,
- 3:27Speaker 2: si un día te vi, no te conozco. Y si
- 3:30Speaker 2: fue así, Ya ni me acuerdo. Como dicen por ahí
- 3:35Speaker 2: a otro perro con ese hueso. Que te perdone yo.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Que te perdone. Como si yo fuera el santo cachón.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Mira mi cara. ¿Ves? Yo soy un hombre. Y no
- 3:48Speaker 2: hay que andar repartiendo perdón. Ajuíciate, mamá. Busca el juicio.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Busca el juicio, muchacha. Ajuíciate. Yo me iba a casar contigo.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Por poco meto la pata. Y ahora no puedo ni verte.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Puedo hacer un disparate. Que te perdone yo, que te perdone.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Como si fuera yo el santo cachón. Mira mi cara, ves,
- 4:10Speaker 2: yo soy un hombre. Y no hay que andar repartiendo perdón.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Que te perdone yo, que te perdone. Como si fuera
- 4:18Speaker 2: yo el santo cachón. Mira mi cara, ves, yo soy
- 4:21Speaker 2: un hombre. Y no hay que andar repartiendo perdón. Esta
- 4:24Speaker 2: canción es... Hay mucha repetición aquí. Pero es una canción
- 4:27Speaker 2: muy interesante, muy divertida. Because now you will understand about
- 4:30Speaker 2: what is this song. Guys, the first part of the song.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Me dijeron que te vieron. Te pillaron. So, me dijeron
- 4:37Speaker 2: que te vieron. It's like they told me they saw you.
- 4:40Speaker 2: They told me they saw you. Y te pillaron. They
- 4:44Speaker 2: caught you. Caught you. Doing you will know what. So,
- 4:48Speaker 2: pillar is the bear. So, the bear pillar is to catch. Yeah.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Someone doing something or saying something. El otro día sabroseando
- 4:57Speaker 2: con un señor que no era yo. The other day,
- 4:59Speaker 2: falling around with a man who wasn't me. El otro día,
- 5:03Speaker 2: the other day, sabroseando con un señor. Falling around, we
- 5:07Speaker 2: can translate sabroseando, falling around con un señor que no
- 5:10Speaker 2: era yo. It means that maybe she was kissing, maybe
- 5:13Speaker 2: she was hugging, maybe she was doing something else. And then,
- 5:17Speaker 2: me contaron los que te vieron. Those who saw you
- 5:20Speaker 2: told me. En una forma, Dios mío, que hoy mejor
- 5:25Speaker 2: no digo. In a way, my God. That, oh, better
- 5:29Speaker 2: not to say. You know what he's talking about. No
- 5:34Speaker 2: fue ni uno, ni fueron dos. Fueron tres. It wasn't one, two,
- 5:38Speaker 2: it was three. Los amigos que te vieron con él.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Moliendo caña. The friends who saw you with him. Grinding
- 5:46Speaker 2: sugar cane. So, grinding sugar cane. Bad, bad. Moliendo caña
- 5:51Speaker 2: in this song have another meaning. Is to have You know,
- 5:55Speaker 2: is having, you know, making love with that person. Moliendo caña, yeah,
- 5:59Speaker 2: is to make love. You can call it like that
- 6:01Speaker 2: in Spanish. It's a way in colloquial Spanish. Ay, mientras yo,
- 6:06Speaker 2: muy solitario, como el llanero. Oh, while I'm alone, like
- 6:10Speaker 2: the planesman. Llanero, the planesman. Porque a mí tú me
- 6:15Speaker 2: dijiste que ibas de viaje. Because you told me you
- 6:18Speaker 2: were going on a trip. Donde tus viejos del alma.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Donde tus viejos del alma. To your beloved parents house. So, viejos,
- 6:26Speaker 2: you can translate like the parents or how you speak
- 6:29Speaker 2: in English, my thoughts. Yeah? Parents, viejos. Y ahora dices
- 6:34Speaker 2: tú que no es así. And now you say that
- 6:36Speaker 2: is not true. Que ese era un primo que estaba allá.
- 6:40Speaker 2: That he was a cousin who was there. Interesting. Que
- 6:46Speaker 2: te invitó a salir. Que te dio pena decir que no.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Who invite you out. And that you feel bad saying no.
- 6:52Speaker 2: And then. Que te perdone. Yo. Que te perdone. That
- 6:57Speaker 2: I should forgive you. That I should forgive you. Como
- 7:01Speaker 2: si fuera yo el santo cachón. As if I were
- 7:04Speaker 2: some saintly cuckold. Yeah. So. Santo cachón, we can translate,
- 7:11Speaker 2: you know, cachón is the things that animals have in
- 7:16Speaker 2: the head. They are like bulls, like goats. They are
- 7:20Speaker 2: in the head. Horns. Cachos. In Spanish, when we call
- 7:24Speaker 2: the person cachos o cachón, it means this person, the
- 7:29Speaker 2: wife or the husband or the boyfriend or the girlfriend
- 7:32Speaker 2: is cheering on him or on her. So, el santo
- 7:36Speaker 2: cachón can be like the saintly Mira mi cara, ves,
- 7:39Speaker 2: yo soy un hombre. Mira mi cara, ves, yo soy
- 7:41Speaker 2: un hombre. Y no hay que andar repartiendo perdón. Ajuíciate, mamá.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Busca el juicio. Get your art together. Get your art together.
- 8:15Speaker 2: You can translate like that. Busca el juicio. Put yourself together.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Get your art together. You can translate. Ajuíciate. Busca el
- 8:25Speaker 2: juicio again, muchacha. Ajuíciate. Girl, get your art together. Get
- 8:29Speaker 2: your art together. Yo me iba a casar contigo, por
- 8:32Speaker 2: poco meto la pata. I was going to marry you.
- 8:34Speaker 2: I almost messed up. Yo me iba a casar. I
- 8:37Speaker 2: almost messed up. You can translate por poco meto la pata.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Meter la pata is an expression that we have when
- 8:43Speaker 2: you mess it up. When you do something like you
- 8:46Speaker 2: cannot like you will regret for the rest of your life.
- 8:50Speaker 2: You say metí la pata. So he's talking that he
- 8:52Speaker 2: almost married her and he almost messed it up. Ahora
- 8:57Speaker 2: no puedo ni verte. Puedo hacer un disparate. And now
- 9:00Speaker 2: I can't even look at you. I might do something crazy.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Disparate You can translate like do something crazy. Tu primito
- 9:07Speaker 2: si te quiere que te exprima. Your cousin if he
- 9:10Speaker 2: love you, let him take advantage of you. You can
- 9:14Speaker 2: translate this part like that. And then, de mí no
- 9:18Speaker 2: podrás quejarte porque te divertiste también. You can complain about
- 9:21Speaker 2: me because you had fun too. Sé que hay cosas
- 9:24Speaker 2: en la vida. I know there are things in life.
- 9:27Speaker 2: Sé que un hombre sale ganando cuando las deja perder.
- 9:31Speaker 2: That means gains when he let them go. Entre el
- 9:35Speaker 2: cielo y la tierra dice un dicho. Between heaven and
- 9:38Speaker 2: earth a saying goes. Que no existe nada oculto y
- 9:41Speaker 2: todo se llega a saber. That nothing is hiding and
- 9:44Speaker 2: everything comes to light. Te pillaron. Te caíste. Si de
- 9:48Speaker 2: pronto te perdono. You got caught. You fell. Suddenly I
- 9:53Speaker 2: forgive you. Tendría que aguantar callado si tú lo vuelves
- 9:56Speaker 2: a hacer. I will have to keep quiet if you
- 9:59Speaker 2: will do it again. And, mujer, si un día te vi,
- 10:04Speaker 2: no te conozco. Woman, if I saw you one day,
- 10:06Speaker 2: I don't know you. Y si fue así, ya ni
- 10:09Speaker 2: me acuerdo. And if it was like that, I don't
- 10:11Speaker 2: even remember. Como dicen por ahí, as they say, tell
- 10:15Speaker 2: that to someone else. A otro perro con ese hueso.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Tell that to someone else. So, in Spanish we have
- 10:21Speaker 2: a very interesting expression here, guys. A otro perro con
- 10:24Speaker 2: ese hueso. A otro perro con ese hueso. We say,
- 10:28Speaker 2: we don't believe what someone is saying to us, yes?
- 10:32Speaker 2: If you are telling me something and I don't believe you,
- 10:34Speaker 2: I say, a otro perro con ese hueso. En inglés
- 10:36Speaker 2: it will be like, hey, tell that to someone else,
- 10:38Speaker 2: not to me. You are fooling me. You will not
- 10:41Speaker 2: fool me, something like that. Yeah, you will not deceive me,
- 10:44Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, very interesting expression. This song has
- 10:47Speaker 2: a lot of interesting expressions, in fact. Like, a otro
- 10:50Speaker 2: perro con ese hueso. And also the other one, por
- 10:54Speaker 2: poco meto la pata. Yeah, a lot of them. Guys,
- 10:59Speaker 2: very cool to practice Spanish. Que te perdone yo, que
- 11:03Speaker 2: te perdone. That I forgive you, that I forgive you.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Como si yo fuera el santo cachón. As if I
- 11:08Speaker 2: were the holy kutkol. Mira mi cara, ves, yo soy
- 11:12Speaker 2: un hombre. Look at my face, you see, I am
- 11:13Speaker 2: a man. Y no hay que andar repartiendo perdón. And
- 11:16Speaker 2: we shouldn't go around handing around forgiveness. Yeah, like giving
- 11:19Speaker 2: forgiveness to everyone. Because he is a saint. Juízate, mamá,
- 11:24Speaker 2: busque el juicio. Get your act together, mamá. Find common sense.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Busca el juicio, muchacha. Find some common sense. Girl. So,
- 11:33Speaker 2: muchacha is the synonym of chica. Muchacha, chica, girl. And
- 11:40Speaker 2: he say mama. Mama is also like, you can call
- 11:43Speaker 2: to the baby, like babe, like hey babe, hey baby.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Mama or is a girl also. Y yo me iba
- 11:50Speaker 2: a casar contigo. I was going to marry you. I
- 11:52Speaker 2: almost messed it up. Por poco meto la pata. Y
- 11:55Speaker 2: que ahora no puedo ni verte. Puedo hacer un disparate.
- 11:57Speaker 2: So I cannot even look at you. I might do
- 11:59Speaker 2: something crazy. And then repetition. Que te perdone yo. Que
- 12:02Speaker 2: te perdone. That I forgive you. That I forgive you.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Como si yo fuera el santo cachón. As if I
- 12:07Speaker 2: were some saintly cuckold. Mira mi cara. Ves yo soy
- 12:11Speaker 2: un hombre. Look at my face. You see I am
- 12:12Speaker 2: a man. Y no hay que andar repartiendo perdón. I
- 12:15Speaker 2: will surely be handing around forgiveness. Or handing out forgiveness.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Que te perdone yo. Que te perdone yo. Ajá. And
- 12:22Speaker 2: so on and so on. Repetition, repetition, repetition, guys. This
- 12:26Speaker 2: is the song of today. Thank you all for listening
- 12:28Speaker 2: until the end. I hope that you like this song.
- 12:30Speaker 2: I advise you to listen to this song because it's
- 12:32Speaker 2: very cool. It's a very funny song. And it's like
- 12:35Speaker 2: very cool to dance because the reading when you listen
- 12:37Speaker 2: I think you will like immediately since the beginning. Yes.
- 12:40Speaker 2: El Santo Cachón. Los Embajadores Vallenatos. Y chicos y chicas,
- 12:45Speaker 2: if you want to support this podcast, this episode, this Project.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Remember that you can do it through PayPal and buy
- 12:51Speaker 2: me a coffee. Los links están en la descripción. Links
- 12:54Speaker 2: are in the description. Thank you very much for everything, guys.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Thank you for writing me. Thank you for being here.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Thank you for asking me for songs, for things for
- 13:03Speaker 2: this episode. And my dear listeners, see you in the
- 13:05Speaker 2: next song. But remember, que te perdone yo, que te
- 13:10Speaker 2: perdone como si yo fuera el santo cachón. Hasta la vista.