PANCHO VILLA

"La Punitiva" Pt. 2
Luis Hernández y Leonardo Sifuentes
El Paso, Texas, 7/16/1929
Victor 81399; Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7042
(Audio Courtesy of Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie/Folklyric)



If because we are so few Mexicans
The “blondie’s” say they can finish us off,
It doesn’t matter if they bring 1,000 cannons
Because they leave them in the hills.


When they entered the State of Chihuahua
all of the people wee just amazed
yo see all those American soldiers
that Pancho Villa left hanging from the poles


when the blondie’s entered the city of Parral
asking for flour, crackers, and ham,
men, women, and children would tell them,
“There’s only gunpowder and cannon balls,”


They say death stalks in Mexico,
that people there kill each other every day,
as long as there is one Mexican alive
our lag will be waving in his hand.


Francisco Villa was a fighting man
and his artillery was always prepared
they would have burned the last cartridge
In defense of our nation.


Just what wee the Americans thinking,
That combat was like dancing a carquis?
With their faces covered with same
They returned to their country once again.


Zit doesn’t matter that the “blondie’s” have
battleships and vessels by the score,
and airplanes and armored cars,
if they don’t have what it really takes.

Si porque semos poquitos mexicanos
dicen lo
s güeros que nos van a acabar,
nada importa que trigan mil cañones
si en la sierra los vienen a dejar.


Cuando entraron al estado de Chihuahua
toda la gente azorada se quedó
de ver tanto soldado americano
que Pancho Villa en los postes les colgó.


Cuando entraron los güeros a Parral,
buscando harina, galletas, y jam&oacuten,
hombres, mujeres y niños les decían:
-Ahi hay pólvora y balines de cañón.-


Porque dicen que en México se muere
y que de diario se matan por allá,
con un solo mexicano que nos quede
nuestra bandera en sus manos flotará.


Francisco Villa era un hombre guerrillero,
sus artilleros al pie de su cañón,
quemarían hasta el último cartucho
pero en defensa de nuestra nación.


?Qué pensaban los americanos,
que combatir era baile de carquís?
Con la cara cubierta de VERGUENZA
se regresaron de nuevo a su país.


Nada importa que tengan los GUEROS
acorazados y buques de a maizal,
aeroplanos y automóvils blindados,
pero les falta lo que al Carrizal.