Ana Gabriel
Miscellaneous
ValentÃn De La Sierra
I am going to sing a corrido,
from a friend from my land
named ValentÃn,
who was shot and hanging in the mountains
I wouldn't like to remember,
it was a winter afternoon
when due to his bad luck
Valentín fell into the hands of the government
The colonel told him,
Who are the people you send?
There are eight hundred soldiers,
who have besieged the mountains of Holland
The colonel asks him,
Who are the people you are leading?
There are eight hundred soldiers,
that Mariano MejÃa brings through the mountains
Valentín, as he was a man of no use, gave them reason
I am one of the mere men,
those who have invented the revolution
The colonel told him,
I grant you a pardon
but are you going to tell me which jury is and the cause I am judging
Before arriving at the hill Valentín wanted cry
my mother of Guadalupe,
for your religion they are going to kill me
Fly, fly little dove,
stand in that fort
these are the mornings
of a brave man who was ValentÃn