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  • The peons of mexico long have known suffering and pain.
  • Zapata and villa have died there, fighting in vain.
  • Ruben jaramillo kept up the tradition, he fought for the land once again.
  • He lived for the land, and there on the land he was slain.
  • A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,
  • But all of the bullets of mexico cannot undo all the work that hes done.
  • The greedy capiques* have stolen and plundered the land,
  • With pistoleros they ruled with a cold iron hand.
  • The poor campesinos could stand it no longer, resistance was starting to grow.
  • Jaramillo decided to fight for a new mexico.
  • A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,
  • But all of the bullets of mexico cannot undo all the work that hes done.
  • For twenty long years he fought and he struggled and tried,
  • (effe bonilla), his wife, always there at his side.
  • Often surrounded, he always was hounded, they searched for him
  • Near, far, and wide:
  • A man of deep sorrow, but also a man of deep pride.
  • A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,
  • But all of the bullets of mexico cannot undo all the work that hes done.
  • Two thousand peasants he led to their long-promised land,
  • And the armys revenge killed the wife and the sons and the man.
  • His assasins rejoiced with their whiskey and women, they laughed and
  • They danced on his grave.
  • Now the land waits again for another to ride on the waves.
  • A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,
  • But all of the bullets of mexico cannot undo all the work that hes done.

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