Corrido de Pancho Villa
Los Cadetes de Linares
Lyrics
Translation
Hoy nuestro mexico febrero 23
Today our Mexico, February 23
Nos mando wilson 6 mil americanos
Wilson sent us 6 thousand Americans
3 mil caballos 200 aeroplanos
3 thousand horses, 200 airplanes
Buscando a villa por todo el pais
Searching for Villa throughout the country
Y comenzaron a salir expediciones
And expeditions began to emerge
Los aeroplanos comenzaron a volar
The airplanes began to fly
Por distintas y varias direcciones
In different and various directions
Buscando a villa queriendolo tronar
Searching for Villa, wanting to capture him
Francisco villa por todos los caminos
Francisco Villa on all the roads
Ponia una tumba disiendo aqui esta ya
He would place a tomb, saying here he is now
El valiente el valiente pancho villa
The brave one, the brave one, Pancho Villa
Por eso nunca lo podian encontrar
That's why they could never find him
Que pensarian ay los americanos
What would the Americans think
Que nuestro suelo pretenden conquistar
That they intend to conquer our land
Si ellos tienen muchisimos cañones
If they have many cannons
Los mexicanos tienen lo principal
The Mexicans have the main thing
Cuando llegaron los vecinos a chiuahua
When the neighbors arrived in Chihuahua
Y en las afueras del pueblo de parral
And on the outskirts of the town of Parral
Pancho villa les puso una emboscada
Pancho Villa set up an ambush for them
En que ninguno se pudo escapar
From which none could escape
Se los llevaron al desierto de chiuahua
They took them to the Chihuahua desert
En las afueras del pueblo de parral
On the outskirts of the town of Parral
Pancho villa les puso una emboscada
Pancho Villa set up an ambush for them
En que ninguno se pudo escapar
From which none could escape
Que pensarian ay los americanos
What would the Americans think
Que combatir era un baile de karki
That combat was a karke dance
Con la cara cubierta de verguenza
With faces covered in shame
Que tubieron que volver a su pais
That they had to return to their country
Yo soy nacido el la sierra de chiuahua
I was born in the Chihuahua mountains
Soy el salodado mas fiel del batallon
I am the most loyal soldier of the battalion
Viva villa que vivan sus dorados
Long live Villa, long live his golden ones
Y que viva la revolucion
And long live the revolution