American Ballads and Folk Songs: page - 0469
Complete Text, Lyrics & Sheet Music
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Ano de noventa y cuatro en la ciudad de Mazatlan por primera vez se canta la tragedia de Bernal.
Heraclio Bernal decfa cuando iba para Saucillos que en la bolsa trafa platas y en la cintura casquillos. |
Translation
In the year of ninety-four, in the city of Mazatlan, this, the song of Bernal, is sung for the first time.
Heraclio Bernal, when he visited Saucillos, was wont to declare that he carried silver in his pocket and cartridges at his waist. |
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Refrain:
Vuela, vuela, palomita, encaramate a aquel nopal: di que diez mil pesos ofrecen por la vida de Bernal.
Una familia en la sierra ^staba muy arruinadaj y les dio quinientos pesos para que se remediaran. |
Fly, little dove, and perch upon yonder cactus 5 and proclaim that ttn thousand pesos are offered for the head of Bernal.
A family in the mountains was in dire poverty j and he gave them five hundred pesos to mend their fortunes-
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