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El Corrido de Rio Arriba (corrido)

from D​í​as Felices by Lone Piñon

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Composed by Roberto Martinez, Sr. of Los Reyes de Albuquerque in the late 1960's. Los Reyes de Albuquerque formed in 1962 and played all over the region for nearly 50 years, recording prolifically and defining a New Mexican take on the mariachi tradition, which they represented several times at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC. Roberto wrote this song after the raid on the Tierra Amarilla courthouse led by Reies Lopez Tijerina. Tijerina was an activist who led native New Mexican heirs of the land grants to demand their rights to land guaranteed in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which the United States has still not upheld.

Additional lyrics by Jordan Wax.

lyrics

Año de sesenta y siete
cinco de junio fue el día
hubo una revolución
allá por Tierra Amarilla.
Allá en la casa de corte
pueblo de Tierra Amarilla
Nuevo México el estado
Condado de Río Arriba.

In the year of '67
The fifth of June was the day
There was an act of revolution
There in Tierra Amarilla.
There in the courthouse
In the town of Tierra Amarilla
State of New Mexico,
County of Río Arriba.

A group of our armed activists
Came down, very upset
And on state officials
Brought justice.
Their leader begged them,
"Let there not be violence."
But he couldn't control them--
They had been pushed beyond patience.


Un grupo de nuestros rebeldes
muy descontentos bajaron
y en oficiales de estado
su venganza ellos tomaron
Su jefe les suplicaba,
"No debería haber violencia."
Pero no los controlaba
pues perdieron la paciencia.

Un diputado en el suelo
se queja con agonía
con una bala en el pecho
allá por Tierra Amarilla
Las mujeres y los niños
Iban corriendo y llorando
En ese instante pensamos
Que el mundo iba acabando.

A deputy on the floor
Is crying out in agony
With a bullet in his chest
There in Tierra Amarilla.
Women and children
Went crying and running
In that moment we thought
That the world was ending.

Este corrido termina
cuando se haga la justicia
cuando renazca la tierra
cuando muera la codicia
cuando por fin se respeta
al prójimo como a uno mismo
¡Arriba nuestra rebeldía
Abajo el colonialismo!

This corrido will sound
Until justice is finally done
Until our land can be reborn
Until greed loses its hold
Until at last we can respect
The rights of all people.
May the memory of our struggle awaken
And uproot the legacy of colonialism

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from D​í​as Felices, released February 18, 2017

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Lone Piñon is an acoustic conjunto from New Mexico whose music celebrates the diversity and integrity of their region's cultural roots.

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