Bullets of Mexico Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[Em]The peons
[D]of Mexico [C]long have known suffer[D]ing and [Em]pain.
Zapata and Vil[D]la have [C]died there,
fight[D]ing in [Em]vain.
Rube'n Jaramillo kep[D]t up the tradition,
he [C]fought for the land once [B]again.
He [Em]lived for [D]the land,
and [C]there on the land [D]he was [Em]slain.

[Verse 2]
[Em]A forty-five bullet bullet has end[D]ed the life
of a [C]man who had lived by the [B]gun,
but [Em]all of the bullets of [D]Mexico cannot un[C]do
all the work that he's [B]done.
[Em]

[Verse 3]
[D]The greedy capiques* have [C]stolen
[D]and plundered [Em]the land,
[D]With pistoleros they [C]ruled
[D]with a cold iron [Em]hand.
The poor campesinos could [D]stand it no longer,
res[C]istance was starting [B]to grow.[Em]
[D]Jaramillo decided [C]to fight
for [D]a new Mexico.

[Verse 4]
[Em]A forty-five bullet bullet has ended[D] the life
of a [C]man who had lived by the [B]gun,
but [Em]all of the bullets of [D]Mexico cannot un
[C]do all the work that he's [B]done.
[Em]

[Verse 5]
For twenty long years he [C]fought and [D]he struggled and [Em]tried,
[D]
Epifania, his [Em]wife,
always there [D]at [Em]his side.
Often surrounded, he [D]always was hounded,
they [C]searched for him
near, far, [B]and wide:
A [Em]man of d[D]eep sorrow,
but [C]also a man [D]of deep [Em]pride.

[Verse 6]
[Em]A forty-five bullet bullet has end[D]ed the life
of [C]a man who had lived by the [B]gun,
but [Em]all of the bullets of [D]Mexico cannot un
[C]do all the work that he's [B]done.
[Em]

[Verse 7]
[Em]Two thou[D]sand peasants he l[C]ed
to their long-promised [D]land,
[Em]land,
and the army's revenge [D]killed the
[C]wife an[D]d the sons and [Em]the man.
His assasins rejoiced with their [D]whiskey and women,
they [C]laughed and
they danced on his [B]grave.
Now the [Em]land waits [D]again for an[C]other
[D]to ride on the waves.
[Em]

[Verse 8]
[Em]A forty-five bullet bullet has [D]ended the life
of [C]a man who had lived by the [B]gun,
but [Em]all of the bullets of [D]Mexico cannot un
[C]do all the work that he's [B]done.

[Outro 1]
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