"PANCHO VILLA"

(traditional)
Los Hermanos Chavarría with Trío San Antonio
McAllen, Texas 1950
Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7041-7044
(Audio Courtesy of Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie/Folklyric



Our Mexico, February 23rd
Carranza let the Americans cross over:
2,000 soldiers, 500 airplanes,
looking for Villa, and set to kill him.


Venustiano tells the Americans:
“If you’re brave and know how to hunt men
I’ll let you search for Villa
but you will also have to face death.”


The soldiers, sergeants, and officers
began trembling mounted on their horses,
they fear the Sierra of Chihuahua
where they might run into Pancho Villa.


The soldiers, tired up in the mountains
looking for Villa, and not able to find him,
then he passes by in an airplane
and from up there waves to them.


When they saw the fluttering flag
with the stars that Villa had painted
all the airplanes made the same mistake,
they landed and Villa caught them.


Pancho Villa no longer rides a horse,
and his people don’t ride anymore,
he is now the owner of various airplanes
and he rents them on very easy terms.

Nuestro México, febrero 23,
dejó Carranza pasar americanos
dos mil soldados, quinientos aeroplanos,
buscando a Villa, queriéndolo matar.


Venustiano dice a los americanos:
-Si son valientes y saben perseguir,
les doy premiso que busquen a Villa,
pero tienen también que morir.-


Los soldados, sargentos y oficiales
en sus caballos comienzan a temblar,
porque temen en la Sierra de Chihuahua
Pancho Villa llegarse a encontrar.


Los soldados cansados y en la sierra
buscando a Villa, que no podían hallar,
cuando luego pasó en un aeroplano
y desde arriba comienza a saludar.


Cuando vieron que flotaba la bandera
Con las estrellas que Villa les pintó,
se equivocaron todos los aeroplanos
y aterizaron y Villa los cogió.


Ya Pancho Villa ya no anda a caballo
y ni su gente tampoco lo andará,
ahora es dueño de varios aeroplanos
que los alquila con gran comodidad.

Legends Before the Revolution

Revolutionary Hero

Attack on Colombus, NM

The Punitive expedition

The Assassination

Corridos de Pancho Villa

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