Текст и перевод песни Miguel Aceves Mejía - A Jorge Negrete

A Jorge Negrete

"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

"They say that I am asleep
And that they will bring me here
My beautiful and beloved Mexico
If I die far away from you." ...

That's how you used to sing with all your heart
Putting your soul into your voice and your song
Perhaps you had a cruel foreboding
Lodged in the depths
There in your heart
You were proud to be a Mexican charro
You told the whole world about your sun
About the women, of a sovereign people
Who cry with joy and sing with pain

"They should bury me in the earth
At the foot of the maguey plants
And that the earth should cover me
Which is pure with honorable men".

Farewell, brother of dreams and yearnings
The earth that loved you now shelters you
Upon your grave lie flowers of remembrance
Watered with the tears that a people wept for you
You departed quickly like the chosen ones
In full glory and in full youth
But you left us your beloved verses
And we shall never forget how you used to sing.