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Gabino Barrera

Gabino Barrera no entendía razones
Andando en la borrachera
Cargaba pistola con seis cargadores
Le daba gusto a cualquiera
Gabino Barrera
Con más de miel hombres
Se levanto por la sierra
Su causa era buena
Pelear por los pobres
Y repartirles la tierra
Usaba el bigote grandote atufado
Su paño rojo enredado
Vestido de manta hablo con Madero
Traía arriscado el sombrero
Sus pies campesinos usaban guaraches
Y a veces a raiz andaba
Pero aunque pisara sobre los huisaches
Sus plantas no se espinaban
Gabino Barrera igual que Zapata
Quería repartir las tierras
Por eso peleaba y entraba en batalla
Sonando sus carrileras
Recuerdo la noche que lo asesinaron
A un lado de Tlapehuala
18 descargas de máuser sonaron
Sin darle tiempo de nada
Gabino Barrera con todo y caballo
Cayo con la balacera
La cara de ese hombre revolucionario
Quedo besando la tierra
Recuerdo la noche que lo asesinaron
Venía de ver a su amada
Dieciocho descargas de máuser sonaron
Sin darle tiempo de nada
Gabino Barrera murió como mueren
Los hombres que son bragados
Por una morena perdió como pierden
Los gallos en los tapados

Gabino Barrera

Gabino Barrera didn't understand any reasons
Loitering in his drunkenness
He carried a gun with six magazines
It gave him pleasure to kill
Gabino Barrera
With more than a thousand men
Rose over the mountain
His cause was good
Fighting for the poor
And redistributing the land
He wore a grandly twisted moustache
His red headscarf
Wearing jeans, he spoke to Madero
His hat was perched precariously
His peasant feet wore sandals
And sometimes he walked barefoot
But even though he stepped on the mimosa
His feet did not get pricked
Gabino Barrera, just like Zapata
Wanted to distribute the land
That's why he fought and went into battle
The sound of his belts
I remember the night when they killed him
On the outskirts of Tlapehuala
18 mauser gunshots rang out
Without giving him any time
Gabino Barrera, horse and all
Fell in the crossfire
The face of that revolutionary man
Was left kissing the earth
I remember the night when they killed him
He was coming from seeing his beloved
Eighteen mauser gunshots rang out
Without giving him any time
Gabino Barrera died like men die
The men who are cowards
Out of love for a dark-haired woman, he lost like men lose
The roosters in the henhouse