El Corrido de Los Perez
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The Ballad of the Perez Family
In 1911 I will explain very well to you
They killed two brothers and a cousin as well,
It was a Thursday, April 20th, around 3 in the afternoon
Don Mariano Perez died at the hands of a coward,
Such unfortunate races, those races of the hill
They lost lives and horses and lost their money.
It was Domenico de Luna who lit the fuse
And with the first shots, he was the first to run,
Isidro Perez said very firmly in his reasons
I also die on the line, I'm not a coward's offspring,
Isidro Perez said they hit us unfairly
If they had spoken right, another story would be told.
Mariano Perez said just leave it, let it be
Because that would be better for us, by God I say no more,
Isidro fell to the south, Jesus fell to the north
Mariano to the east, like forming a cross,
Fly, fly little dove, fly beloved dove
Tell the father of the Perez family that here his life ended.
