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Arnulfo Gonzalez

De Allende se despidió
Con 21 años cabales
Gratos recuerdos dejó
Al pueblo y a los rurales

Está Arnulfo sentado
En eso pasa un rural
Le dice oye que me ves
La vista es muy natural

El rural muy enojado
En la cara le pegó
Con su pistola en la mano
La muerte ya amenazó

Arnulfo se levantó
Llamándole la atención
Le dice oiga no se vaya
Falta mi contestación

Se agarraron a balazos
Se agarraron frente a frente
Arnulfo, con su pistola
Tres tiros le dio al teniente

Pero hay le dice el teniente
Casi para agonizar
Le dijo oiga amigo no se vaya
Acábeme de matar

Arnulfo se devolvió
A darle un tiro en la frente
Pero en la vuelta que dio
Ahí le pego el teniente

Arnulfo muy mal herido
En un sitio iba colando
Cuando llegó al hospital
Arnulfo iba agonizando

Que bonito son los hombres
Que se matan pecho a pecho
Con su pistola en la mano
Defendiendo su derecho

El teniente era hombrecito
Las pruebas las había dado
Pero si encontró un pollito
Que este no estaba jugado

Ya con esta me despido
Pacíficos y fiscales
Aqui se acaba el corrido
De un teniente y de Gonzales

Arnulfo Gonzalez

From Allende, he bid farewell
At twenty-one, strong and bold
He left fond memories behind
With the people and the rural fold

Arnulfo sat there, lost in thought
When a rural guard's presence caught his eye
The guard demanded, "What do you see?"
Arnulfo calmly replied, "The view's plain, as you can spy"

The guard, enraged, with force did strike
Arnulfo's face, a painful sight
His gun in hand, he threatened death
A life now hanging by a thread

Arnulfo rose, with strength anew
And challenged the guard's malicious plan
"Don't leave yet, my friend," he said
"My answer still remains unread"

They faced each other, guns ablaze
In a deadly dance, their lives in a haze
Arnulfo's shots, three precise and true
Struck the lieutenant, through and through

But the lieutenant, with his final breath
Utterd words of regret
"Please, my friend, don't let me suffer more"
"Put an end to this, I implore"

Arnulfo turned, his heart filled with dread
And fired a bullet at the lieutenant's head
But as he turned, his wounds took hold
The lieutenant's shot, a fatal cold

Arnulfo stumbled, his body weak
To a place of safety, he sought to sneak
But when he reached the hospital's door
Arnulfo's life could breathe no more

Oh, how brave the men who stand
And face their foes with gun in hand
Their honor and their pride at stake
In battles fought for their own sake

The lieutenant, a man of might
His courage tested in many a fight
But he met his match in this young lad
Who stood his ground, unyielding and glad

With this, my story I conclude
Of a lieutenant and Gonzales, two
Their rivalry, a tale now told
A legend of courage, daring, and bold