Paroles et traduction Ignacio Lopez Tarso - La Persecución de Villa

La Persecución de Villa

Patria México, febrero veintitrés,
Dejó Carranza pasar americanos:
Dos mil soldados, doscientos aeroplanos,
Buscando a Villa, queriéndolo matar.

Después Carranza les dijo afanoso:
Si son valientes y lo quieren combatir,
Concedido, Yo les doy el permiso,
Para que así se enseñen a morir.

Comenzaron a echar expediciones,
Los aeroplanos comenzaron a volar,
Por distintas y varias direcciones,
Buscando a Villa, queriéndolo matar.

Los soldados que vinieron desde Texas
A Pancho Villa no podían encontrar,
Muy fastidiados de ocho horas de camino,
Los pobrecitos se querían regresar.

Los de a caballo ya no se podían sentar,
Y los de a pié no podían caminar;
Entonces Villa les pasa en su aeroplano
Y desde arriba les dijo: Gud bay.

Cuando supieron que Villa ya era muerto,
Todos gritaban henchidos de furor:
Ahora sí, queridos compañeros,
Vamos a Texas cubiertos con honor.

Mas no sabían que Villa estaba vivo
Y que con él nunca iban a poder;
Si querían hacer una visita
Hasta la sierra lo podían ir a ver.

Comenzaron a lanzar sus aeroplanos,
Entonces Villa, un buen plan les estudió:
Se vistió de soldado americano
Y a sus tropas también las transformó.

Mas cuando vieron los gringos las banderas
Con muchas barras que Villa les pintó,
Se bajaron con todo y aeroplanos
Y Pancho Villa prisioneros los tomó.

Toda la gente de Chihuahua y Ciudad Juárez
Muy asombrada y asustada se quedó,
Sólo de ver tanto gringo y carrancista
Que Pancho Villa sin orejas los dejó.

Que pensarían los "bolillos" tan patones
Que con cañones nos iban a asustar;
Si ellos tienen aviones de a montones
Aquí tenemos lo mero principal.

Todos los gringos pensaban en su alteza
Que combatir era un baile de carquís,
Y con su cara llena de vergüenza
Se regresaron en bolón pa su país.

(Cantada)

Que pensarian ahi los americanos,
Que combatir era un baile de carquís,
Con su cara llena de vergüenza
Se regresaron todos a su país.

The Pursuit of Villa

My country Mexico, February twenty-third,
Carranza let Americans pass:
Two thousand soldiers, two hundred airplanes,
Searching for Villa, wanting to kill him.

Then Carranza told them anxiously:
If you are brave and want to fight him,
Granted, I give you permission,
So that you can teach yourselves to die.

They began to launch expeditions,
The airplanes began to fly,
In different and various directions,
Searching for Villa, wanting to kill him.

The soldiers who came from Texas
Could not find Pancho Villa,
Very tired of eight hours of travel,
The poor things wanted to go back.

Those on horseback could no longer sit down,
And those on foot could not walk;
Then Villa passes by them in his airplane
And from above he said to them: Good bye.

When they learned that Villa was already dead,
Everyone shouted filled with fury:
Now yes, dear comrades,
Let's go to Texas covered with honor.

But they did not know that Villa was alive
And that they would never be able to with him;
If they wanted to pay a visit
They could go see him up in the mountains.

They began to launch their airplanes,
Then Villa studied a good plan for them:
He dressed as an American soldier
And he transformed his troops as well.

But when the gringos saw the flags
With many stripes that Villa painted on them,
They got off with all their airplanes
And Pancho Villa took them prisoner.

All the people of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez
Were very surprised and scared,
Just to see so many gringos and carrancistas
That Pancho Villa left them without ears.

What would the "bolillos" think, so clumsy
That with cannons they were going to scare us;
If they have airplanes in abundance
Here we have the main thing.

All the gringos thought of their highness
That fighting was a dance of khakis,
And with their faces full of shame
They all went back to their country.

(Sung)

What would the Americans think there,
That fighting was a dance of khakis,
With their faces full of shame
They all went back to their country.