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Wetback-Rooster
I've lived for many years
in the United States,
my parents put me to work
from a young age.
I am now naturalized
and don't call myself a 'gringo'.
And yet I am grateful
to be embraced by this country
where my parents gave me
an education and a home,
I sympathize for the wetback
who has fallen in disgrace...
In the American union
I'd like to be its president,
but with Aztec blood
so I can help its people,
that wetback-rooster
would sing differently.
It won't be long until it happens
because with so many [becoming] citizens
that which runs through [their] veins
the blood of Mexicans
we'll be left surprised
like the African-Americans...
Many seek the land
of opportunity
we obtain it wherever we go,
yes, we do want to work
you'll never be able to eat the prickly-pear
if you don't know how to skin it.
In the American union
I'd like to be its president,
but with Aztec blood
so I can help its people,
that wetback-rooster
would sing differently.
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