Phil Ochs – Bullets Of Mexico (Guitar)

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The peons of Mexico long have known suffering and pain.

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Zapata and Villa have died there, fighting in vain.

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Rube'n Jaramillo kept up the tradition, he fought for the land once again.

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He lived for the land, and there on the land he was slain.

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A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,

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but all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo all the work that he's done.

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The greedy caciques have stolen and plundered the land,

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With pistoleros they ruled with a cold iron hand.

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The poor campesinos could stand it no longer, resistance was starting to grow.

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Jaramillo decided to fight for a new Mexico.

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A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,

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but all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo all the work that he's done.

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For twenty long years he fought and he struggled and tried,

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Epifania, his wife, always there at his side.

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Often surrounded, he always was hounded, they searched for him near, far, and wide:

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A man of deep sorrow, but also a man of deep pride.

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A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,

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but all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo all the work that he's done.

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Two thousand peasants he led to their long-promised land,

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and the army's revenge killed the wife and the sons and the man.

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His assassins rejoiced with their whiskey and women, they laughed and they danced on his grave.

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Now the land waits again for another to ride on the waves.

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A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun,

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but all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo all the work that he's done.