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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Library work|title=Bullets of Mexico|author=Phil Ochs|published_date=1964|type=Song}}<br />
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== Lyrics ==<br />
The peons of Mexico long have known suffering and pain<br />
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Zapata and Villa have died there, fighting in vain<br />
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Ruben Jaramillo kept up the tradition, he fought for the land once again<br />
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He lived for the land, and there on the land he was slain<br />
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Forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man who had lived by the gun<br />
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but all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo all the work that he's done<br />
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The greedy capiques have stolen and plundered the land<br />
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With pistoleros they rule with a cold iron hand<br />
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The poor campesinos could stand it no longer, resistance was starting to grow<br />
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Jaramillo decided to fight for a new Mexico<br />
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=== Chorus ===<br />
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For twenty long years he fought and he struggled and tried<br />
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Epifania, his wife, always there at his side<br />
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Often surrounded, he always was hounded, they searched for him near, far and wide<br />
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A man of deep sorrow, but also a man of deep pride<br />
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Two thousand peasants he led to their long-promised land<br />
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And the army's revenge killed the wife and the sons and the man<br />
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The assassins rejoiced with their whiskey and women, they laughed and they danced on his grave<br />
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Now the land waits again for another to ride on the wave<br />
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