Lyrics and translation Miguel Aceves Mejía - A Jorge Negrete - Digitally Remastered

A Jorge Negrete - Digitally Remastered

"Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aqui
Mexico lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti." ...

Asi cantabas con todo el sentimiento
Poniendo el alma en la voz y tu canción
Tal vez tenia el cruel presentimiento
Metido en lo mas hondo
Alli en tu corazón
Tuviste orgullo ser charro mexicano
Al mundo entero le hablaste de tu sol
De las mujeres, de un pueblo soberano
Que llora de alegria y canta de dolor

"Que me entierren en la tierra
Al pie de los magueyales
Y que me cubra la tierra
Que es pura de hombres cabales".

Adios hermano de sueños y de anhelos
Ya te cobija la tierra que te amó
Sobre tu tumba las flores del recuerdo
Regadas con el llanto que un pueblo te lloro
Te fuiste pronto como los elegidos
En plena gloria y en plena juventud
Pero nos dejas tus versos consentidos
Y nunca olvidaremos que asi cantabas tú.

To Jorge Negrete - Digitally Remastered

"They say I'm sleeping
And that they are bringing me here
Beautiful and beloved Mexico
If I die far from you." ...

So you sang with all your heart
Putting your soul into voice and song
Perhaps you had a cruel premonition
Hidden in the furthest depths
There in your heart
You took pride in being a Mexican charro
You spoke of your sun to the whole world
Of the women, of a sovereign people
Who weep tears of joy and sing in sorrow

"Let them bury me in the earth
At the foot of the maguey fields
And may the earth cover me
Which is pure for honorable men".

Farewell, brother of dreams and longings
The earth which loved you now shelters you
Upon your grave are the flowers of remembrance
Watered by the tears wept by a nation
You left too soon, like the chosen ones
In the fullness of glory and youth
But you leave us with your cherished verses
And we will never forget that this is how you sang.