"La Cucaracha" (Spanish: "The Cockroach") is a traditional Spanish folk corrido about a cockroach who cannot walk. The song became popular in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
The song consists of verse-and-refrain (strophe-antistrophe) pairs, with each half of each pair consisting of four lines featuring an ABCB rhyme scheme.
The origins of "La Cucaracha" are obscure. The lyrics of the refrain make no explicit reference to historical events, so it is difficult, if not impossible, to date them. However, because the verses are improvised according to the needs of the time, and mention contemporary social or political conditions, a rough estimate of their age can be made.
In Disney[]
"La Cucaracha" is heard in A Bug's Life, where the song is played by a mosquito band living in Hopper's Hideout. It is also heard in Cars 2, when Mater is wearing his taco truck disguise and the horn plays "La Cucaracha". In the MCU, this is the horn on Luis' van.
Lyrics[]
La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marihuana que fumar
Ya murió la cucaracha
Y la llevan a enterrar
Entre cuatro zopilotes
Y un ratón de sacristán
The cockroach, the cockroach
Can't walk anymore
Because it doesn't have, because it's lacking
Marijuana to smoke
The cockroach just died
Now they take her to be buried
Among four buzzards
And a mouse as the sexton
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