Lyrics of Canto del Bracero - Pedro Infante

Canto del Bracero (original)

Cuando yo me fui pa’l Norte
Me colé por California
Yo no tenía cartilla
Ni pasaporte, ni amigos
Ni palancas en migración
Pero me colé con resolución
Recorrí varios estados de la
Unión Americana
En Arizona y Texas y por Louisiana
Siempre sentí la falta de
Estimación
Es que dicen que es discriminación
Ay que triste es la vida
Que triste vida es la del bracero
Ay cuanta decepción, cuanta desolación
Lejos de nuestros padres
Y de la novia y del compañero
Dan ganas de llorar, con solo recordar
Al pasar por Minnesota, y por
Cleveland, Ohio
Cuanto le suspiré al Rancho del Pitayo
Rancho que abandoné por aventurar
Y al pensar en él, quise regresar
Si tu piensas ir, detente
O si estas allá regresa
Donde está tu terruño y
Está tu gente
Y el rinconcito aquel que te vió nacer
Donde está el amor que puedes perder

(translation)

When I went to the North
I sneaked through California
I did not have a card
No passport, no friends
Neither levers in migration
But I snuck in with resolve
I toured several states of the
American Union
In Arizona and Texas and throughout Louisiana
I always felt the lack of
Estimate
It is that they say it is discrimination
Oh how sad life is
What a sad life is that of the bracero
Oh how much disappointment, how much desolation
away from our parents
And the girlfriend and the partner
They make you want to cry, just by remembering
Passing through Minnesota, and through
Cleveland, Ohio
How much I longed for the Rancho del Pitayo
Ranch that I abandoned to venture
And thinking of him, I wanted to return
If you think to go, stop
Or if you are there come back
Where is your homeland and
are your people
And the little corner that saw you born
Where is the love that you can lose