Gabino Barrera Antonio Aguilar (English Translation) Lyrics

Gabino Barrera didn’t understand reasons
walking in drunkenness
he carried a pistol with six magazines
he pleased anyone.
He wore a square mustache
his cloth tangled around his neck
peasant pants, leather jacket
he wore his hat cocked.

His peasant feet wore huaraches
and sometimes he walked barefoot
but he liked to pay the mariachis
he didn’t care about money.
With a bottle of cane in his hand
he shouted “Long live Zapata!”
because he was a rancher, a southerner Indian
he was the son of good stock.

He was tall, well-built, very broad-shouldered
his poorly shaved face
his dark gaze gave him an air
of the vulture of the mountains.
Gabino Barrera left women
with children everywhere
that’s why in the towns where he walked
they had him sentenced.
I remember the night they killed him
he was coming from seeing his beloved
eighteen Máuser shots sounded
without giving him a chance.
Gabino Barrera died like those die
who are brave men
for a brunette he lost like roosters lose
in cockfights.