[00:00.00]Bullets of Mexico (Unreleased LP Version) - Phil Ochs [00:15.00]The peons of mexico long have known suffering and pain [00:20.52]Zapata and villa have died there fighting in vain [00:26.17]Ruben jaramillo kept up the tradition [00:28.43]He fought for the land once again [00:31.54]He lived for the land [00:32.84]And there on the land he was slain [00:37.47]A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man [00:40.26]Who had lived by the gun [00:42.60]But all of the bullets of mexico [00:44.82]Cannot undo all the work that he's done [00:51.02]The greedy capiques have stolen [00:52.98]And plundered the land [00:56.54]With pistoleros they ruled with a cold iron hand [01:02.04]The poor campesinos could stand it no longer [01:04.43]Resistance was starting to grow [01:07.23]Jaramillo decided to fight for a new mexico [01:13.24]A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man [01:16.19]Who had lived by the gun [01:18.40]But all of the bullets of mexico [01:20.72]Cannot undo all the work that he's done [01:26.88]For twenty long years [01:28.40]He fought and he struggled and tried [01:32.83](Effe bonilla) His wife always there at his side [01:38.28]Often surrounded he always was hounded [01:40.81]They searched for him near far and wide [01:43.57]A man of deep sorrow [01:45.00]But also a man of deep pride [01:49.56]A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man [01:52.40]Who had lived by the gun [01:54.84]But all of the bullets of mexico [01:57.19]Cannot undo all the work that he's done [02:03.62]Two thousand peasants he led to their long-promised land [02:08.88]And the armys revenge killed the wife [02:10.90]And the sons and the man [02:14.85]His assasins rejoiced with their whiskey and women [02:17.32]They laughed and they danced on his grave [02:20.26]Now the land waits again [02:21.84]For another to ride on the waves [02:26.48]A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man [02:29.37]Who had lived by the gun [02:31.86]But all of the bullets of mexico [02:34.01]Cannot undo all the work that he's done