A Jorge Negrete

"Let them say I am asleep
and bring me here.
Beautiful and beloved Mexico
If I die far from you." ....

That's how you sang with all the feeling
Putting your soul into your voice and your song
Maybe you had the cruel premonition
Embedded deep within
There in your heart.
You were proud to be a Mexican cowboy
You spoke to the whole world about your sun
About the women, about a sovereign town
That cries with joy and sings with pain.

"Bury me in the earth
at the foot of the maguey plants.
And let the earth cover me
Which is pure of honorable men"...

Goodbye brother of dreams and desires
Now the earth that loved you covers you.
Over your grave, the flowers of memory
Watered with the tears that a town cried for you.
You left early like the chosen ones
In full glory and in full youth.
But you leave us your cherished verses
And we will never forget how you sang...