Ramón Delgado


Ramón Delgado	As Sung by Valerio Longoria ^<W23>



Espanol	English
Año de mil novecientos veintitrés que se contó, en ese pueblo de Hondo, Ramón Delgado murió.	The year nineteen hundred and twenty-three the just past, in the town of Hondo, Ramón Delgado was killed.
Y ese pueblo de Hondo, está corriendo mala fama, que matan al mexicano nomás porque les da gana.	That town of Hondo is getting a bad reputation; there they kill Mexicans just because they feel like it.
Ahi su esposa lo lloraba, su hijita con más razón, de ver a su padre muerto preso su hermano Ramón.	His wife wept for him and his daughter suffered, seeing her father dead and her brother Ramón in jail.
En esa carcél del Hondo, Ramón chico se encontraba, y el estaba inocente lo que en su casa pasaba.	Young Ramón was being held in the jail of Hondo and was unaware of what was happeneing at home.
El carcelero le dijo: - ¿No sabes lo que ha pasado? que en el rancho donde vives a tu padre lo han matado.	The jailer told him, "Have you heard what's happened? Over at your ranch they've killed your father."
Al oír esa noticia pues ¿como se quedaria? preso en la cárcel del Hondo porque así le convendría.	When he heard the news, well, how do you think he felt? Locked up in the jail of Hondo because he'd be better off that way.
Me dispensarán los gringos que hable de su gran valor, que matan al mexicano por quitarle su labor.	The gringos will forgive me if I speak of their brave deeds; they kill Mexicans to take away what they worked for.
Yo les digo la verdad, estoy bastante ofendido, al cabo se a mí me matan ya mi padre está tendido.	I tell them the truth This is a great offense! let them kill me just like they did my father.
Yo lo siento por me hermana y por mi madre querida, ya a mi padre mataron, yo ya no quiero la vida.	I'm sorry for my sister and my dear mother, they've killed my father, life is not worth living.
Y si yo pago en la misma porque digo la verdad, ruéguenselo a Dios sagrado que ese día se llegará.	If I pay with my life for speaking the truth, pray to the Holy Lord that the day will come.
Todos debíamos de unirnos y mirarnos como hermanos, ahi miren lo que nos pasa, a todos los mexicanos.	We should all be united and treat each other like brothers, Look at what is happeneing to all of us Mexicans.
El mexicano es tan hombre y los en cualquier terreno, porque se sabe morir en su pueblo y en el ajeno.	The Mexican is very manly, he's like that anywhere, because he knows how to die in his own or in a foreign land.
Aquí en el estado de Texas no nos juzgan con conciencia, si no nos mandan al' orca se nos da una penitencia.	Here in the state of Texas they don't judge us with a conscience, when they don't send us to the gallows, they sentence us to jail.
Vuela, vuela palomita, vuela para otro lado, anda avisarle a mis padres que murió Ramón Delgado.	Fly, fly, little dove, fly to the other side, tell my parents that Ramón Delgado has died.
Yo con ésta ahi me despido al pie de este verde prado, Ramón aquí termina el corrido del señor Ramón Delgado.	Now with this I bed farewell at teh edge of this green field, here ends the ballad of Mr. Ramón Delgado.
Yo con ésta ahi me despido porque mi suerte es así, les encargo a mis amigos que hagan recuerdo de mí.	Now with this I bid farewell because this is my fate, I leave it up to you, my friends, to keep a remembrance of him.