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ZZ Top: Deguello (Warner Brothers HS 3361 import) ****

Geoff Barton, Sounds, 15 December 1979

AS A ONE-time Spanish A-level student, I find myself in the privileged position of being able to tell you that 'deguello' means 'slaughter' or 'butchery', and indeed that 'entrar en uno poblacion a deguello' can be translated as 'to violate a town'.

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