Translation of the version posted by Joe back in 08 Aug 98:

La Cucaracha
(translation from Frances Toor, 1947)

Chorus_
The cockroach, the cockroach
Can no longer walk,
Because it hasn't, because it hasn't
Marijuana to smoke.

The cockroach is now dead
And is taken to be buried
Between four buzzards
And a rat of a *Sacristan.

With the whiskers of Carranza,
I'm going to make a hat band,
To put it on the sombrero
Of his *father Pancho Villa

A baker went to mass,
Not finding anything to pray for,
He asked the pure Virgin
For Marijuana to smoke.

One thing makes me laugh,
Pancho Villa in his shirt;
Now the Carranzistas are leaving
Because the Villistas are coming.

For sarapes, Saltillo;
Chihuahua, for soldiers;
For women, Jalisco;
For love, everywhere.

*father- Mexican slang for boss. May be applied sarcastically.
*Sacristan- in general, the church hierarchy supported the establishment.
When sung in a group, everyone was invited to contribute a verse.