| Voy a cantar un corrido
| I'm going to sing a corrido
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| De un amigo de mi tierra
| From a friend from my land
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| Llamadose Valentín
| called Valentine
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| Que fue fusilado y colgado en la sierra
| That he was shot and hung in the mountains
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| No me quisiera acordar
| I wouldn't want to remember
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| Era una tarde de invierno
| It was a winter afternoon
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| Cuando por su mala suerte
| When due to his bad luck
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| Cayo Valentín en manos del gobierno
| Gaius Valentin in the hands of the government
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| El coronel le decía
| The colonel told him
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| ¿Cual es la gente que mandas?
| Who are the people you command?
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| Son ochocientos soldados
| There are eight hundred soldiers
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| Que tienen sitiada la sierra de Holandas
| That they have besieged the Dutch mountains
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| El coronel le pregunta
| The colonel asks
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| ¿Cual es la gente que guías?
| Who are the people you guide?
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| Son ochocientos soldados
| There are eight hundred soldiers
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| Que trae por la sierra Mariano Mejía
| What does Mariano Mejía bring through the mountains
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| Valentín como era hombre de nada les dio razón
| Valentín, as he was a man, gave them no reason
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| Yo soy de los meros hombres
| I am of the mere men
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| Los que han inventado la revolución
| Those who have invented the revolution
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| El coronel le decía
| The colonel told him
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| Yo te concedo el indulto
| I grant you pardon
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| Pero me vas a decir cual es el jurado y la causa que juzgo
| But you are going to tell me which is the jury and the cause that I judge
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| Antes de llegar al cerro Valentín quiso llorar
| Before reaching the hill, Valentín wanted to cry
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| Madre mía de Guadalupe
| My mother of Guadalupe
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| Por tu religión me van a matar
| For your religion they are going to kill me
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| Vuela, vuela palomita
| Fly, fly little dove
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| Párate en ese fortín
| Stand in that fort
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| Estas son las mañanitas
| These are the mornings
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| De un hombre valiente que fue Valentín | Of a brave man who was Valentin |