WILLIAM BLAKE - MEXICAN NATIONAL SONG

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While I drive on the road in my way back home
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All the mountains enclose me between their bulk,
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When I look up I see that I'm not alone,
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I can see that the clouds are my only friends,
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Like that poet in Paris once said.

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In the clouds that are moving chaotically
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All I see is a Spaniard that looks at me,
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He is dead and he speaks with his rotten throat:
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"I have stolen this song form a German march",
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And his words were all covered by steam.

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I'm alone and I'm driving so slowly
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That the dogs are now passing me by,
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Now the clouds have dissolved in the firmament,
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Now it's midnight, I hear on the radio:
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it's the Mexican National Song.

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"It's the Mexican National Anthem and
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You must use it to win your beloved's heart,
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for I know that she's wild and she's beautiful,
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for I know that her soul is like many souls
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and her heart is a nation itself".

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Now your heart is a nation I want to know,
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What I know is, you're wild and you're beautiful,
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What I know is, your soul is like many souls,
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What I'm using to reach you is just a song
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that was given to me by a Spanish ghoul
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that was hiding and rotting beyond the sun,
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every syllable measured to fit the lines
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of a sonnet I wanted to write for you,
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But I couldn't 'cause I'm not that good with rhymes,
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Now I'm singing to you, now that all I have,
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Is the Mexican National Song!

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I'm alone and I'm driving so slowly
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that the dogs are now passing me by,
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Now the clouds have dissolved in the firmament,
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Now it's midnight, I hear on the radio:
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it's the Mexican... National... Song...

(NO LYRICS)

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Mexicanos al grito de guerra
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el acero aprestad y el bridón
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¡Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra
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al sonoro rugir del cañón!

Music and Lyrics: Carlos Mal Pacheco