A Jorge Negrete [English translation]

"Let them say that I am sleeping

and let them bring me here,

Beautiful and beloved Mexico

if I die far away from you." ...

Thus you used to sing with all your heart

putting your soul in your voice and in your song,

perhaps you had the cruel pesentiment

put in the deepest places

there in your heart.

You took pride in being a Mexican horseman,

you spoke to the whole world about your homeland,

about the women and about a sovereign people

who weep in happiness and sing in sadness.

"Let them bury me in the mountains

at the foot of the agaves

and let the land cover me

which is the cradle of honourable men"

Farewell brother of dreams and ardent desires,

the land that loved you already covers you,

on your grave the memorial flowers

watered with the tears which a people wept for you.

You were soon gone like the chosen ones1

in full glory and in full youth,

but you leave us your universally accepted verses

and we will never forget that thus you used to sing....

"Mexico beautiful and beloved

if I die far from you

let them say that I am sleeping

and let them bring me here.

Let them say that I am sleeping

and let them carry me here,

Mexico beautiful, beloved

if I die far from you."

1. I think this line is a fancy way of saying "you died young"; he died shortly after his 42nd birthday