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Letra original
La persecución de Villa
Nuestro México, febrero veintitrés,
dejo Carranza pasar americanos
dos mil soldados trescientos aeroplanos
buscando a villa por todo el país
Comenzaron a echar expediciones
los aeroplanos comenzaron a volar
por distintas y varias direcciones
buscando a Villa queriéndolo matar
Los soldados que vinieron desde Tejas
a Pancho Villa no podían encontrar
ya fatigados de ocho horas de camino
los pobres se querían regresar.
Los de a caballo no se podían sentados
y los de a pie no podían caminar
entonces Villa les pasa en su aeroplano
y desde arriba les grita "Goodbye"
Cuando supieron que Villa ya era muerto,
todos gritaban henchidos de furor:
ahora sí, queridos compañeros,
vamos a Texas cubiertos con honor.
Mas no sabían que Villa estaba vivo
y que con él nunca iban a poder;
si querían hacerle una visita
hasta la sierra lo podían ir a ver.
Empezaron a lanzar sus aeroplanos,
entonces Villa, un buen plan les preparo:
se vistió de soldado americano
y a sus tropas también las transformó.
Mas cuando vieron los gringos las banderas
con muchas barras que Villa les pintó,
se bajaron con todo y aeroplanos
y Pancho Villa prisioneros los tomó.
Toda la gente de Chihuahua y Ciudad Juárez
muy asustada y asombrada se quedó,
sólo de ver tanto gringo y carrancista
que Pancho Villa sin orejas los dejó.
Que pensarían los "bolillos" tan patones
que con cañones nos iban a asustar;
si ellos tienen aviones de a montones
aquí tenemos lo mero principal.
- Carranza:
Venustiano Carranza, a leader in the Mexican Revolution and 37th president of Mexico from 1917 to 1920.
- villa:
Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution.
- expediciones:
The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition, but originally referred to as the "Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army"—was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa from March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920.
- carrancista:
follower of Carranza
- bolillos:
refers to an American, a white blonde American. A bolillo is a type of bread that is pale in color.
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The persecution of Villa
In our Mexico on the 23rd of February
Carraza let Americans pass through
two thousand soldiers, three hundred airplanes
in search of Villa through the whole country.
They began to launch expeditions,
the airplanes began to fly out
through different and various directions
in search of Villa, wanting to kill him.
The soldiers that came from Texas
couldn't find Pancho Villa,
already tired from eight hours on the road,
the poor men wanted to go back.
Those on horses couldn't remain seated
and those on foot couldn't walk anymore,
and so Villa passed them by on an airplane
and from above he yells out: "Goodbye".
When they learned that Villa was already dead,
they all shouted in a frenzy:
"now for sure, dear fellow soldiers,
we'll go to Texas covered in honors".
But they didn't know Villa was alive
and that they would never be able to defeat him;
if they wanted to see him
they could go all the way to the mountains to do it.
They began to fly on their airplanes
and so Villa, prepared a good plan for them:
he dressed up like an American soldier
and dressed up his troops too.
But when the gringos saw the flags
with all the lines that Villa painted on them,
they came down with airplanes and all
and Pancho Villa took them as prisoners.
All the people of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez
were left very scared and astonished,
just at seeing so many gringos and carrancista1
that Pancho Villa left with their tails between their legs.2
that they'd scare us with their guns?
if they have planes by the dozen,
here we have the most important thing.
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The song is also known as "México Febrero 23".