came to be a craving frenzy for rock in Spanish. As El Tri recorded Metro Balderas and featured it in their album Simplemente, that came to be the most known version of this song. Music remained without essential changes, even though in the original version Rockdrigo was accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica; El Tri arranged it for a whole rock band, plus a saxophone, giving it a faster, more rocker, more attractive and less intimate rhythm. It is in the lyrics where significant changes can be found, which, rather than just a cover, make it a different version. Changes are such that copyright for the song in Simplemente is credited to González and Alejandro Lora, leader, vocalist and guitar player of El Tri. So, many people often think that "Metro Balderas" is an original song by El Tri; same happens with other songs by Rockdrigo, such as Asalto chido, recorded by Botellita de Jerez. The most significant changes in the El Tri version are: 1. Original version was named "Estación del metro Balderas", but El Tri version is just "Metro Balderas": 2. All lines about the hijacking, including menaces to the engineer, and the vague and humorous Freudian quote, were suppressed. There are no more "platforms" or "waiting rooms". All references to a train or a train station disappear. 3. Interlocution is no longer to a "Mister Engineer" ("señor operador", as a train driver would be respectfully called), but to a chauffeur; this word ("chofer") is only used for taxi, bus or truck drivers. Then again, "Balderas station" is replaced by "Metro Balderas". So it seems that the story is no longer situated inside the tunnels, but at street level; the individual is not travelling on the subway, but in a taxi, a bus or a truck. 4. "Metro Hidalgo", as in the original version, is a centric subway station on Line 3, very close to Balderas. El Tri replaces "take me to Hidalgo or wherever you want" for new, more distant places, as "La Villa", "la San Simón", "Copilco", "Contreras", "La Curva" or "la Escandón". The inclusion of new places by El Tri adds a new hyperbolic twist to the story: La Villa and Copilco are in both extremes of the very long Line 3 (22 kilometers). La Villa can be reached one station before the northern end of the line (Metro Indios Verdes) and Copilco is