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1 SONG LYRICS WITH TRANSLATIONS De Colores Traditional - Mexican Folk Song De colores, de colores se visten los campos en la primavera De colores, de colores son los pajarillos que vienen de afuera De colores, de colores es el arco iris que vemos lucir Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi Canta el gallo, canta el gallo con el quiri quiri quiri quiri quiri La gallina, la gallina con el cara cara cara cara cara Los polluelos, los polluelos con el pio pio pio pio pi Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi Canta el gallo, canta el gallo con el quiri quiri quiri quiri quiri La gallina, la gallina con el cara cara cara cara cara Los polluelos, los polluelos con el pio pio pio pio pi Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi In Colors Traditional - Mexican Folk Song In colors, the fields drape themselves in profusion of colors in springtime.

2 In colors, in colors the young birds arriving from afar In colors, in colors the brilliant rainbow we spy And that s why the great love of infinite colors is pleasing to me And that s why the great love of infinite colors is pleasing to me The rooster sings, the rooster sings with a cock-a-doodle-do (kiri, kiri) The hen, the hen with a cluck, cluck, cluck (kara, kara) The baby chicks, the baby chicks with a cheep, cheep, cheep (pio, pio) And that s why the great love of infinite colors is pleasing to me And that s why the great love of infinite colors is pleasing to me The rooster sings, the rooster sings with a cock-a-doodle-do (kiri, kiri) The hen, the hen with a cluck, cluck, cluck (kara, kara) The baby chicks, the baby chicks with a cheep, cheep, cheep (pio, pio) And that s why the great love of infinite colors is pleasing to me And that s why the great love of infinite colors is pleasing to me (translated by Abby F.)

3 Rivera 1/05) El Picket Sign LYRICS : Luis Valdez, Music: Traditional (Se Va el Caim n) El picket sign, el picket sign Lo llevo por todo el d a El picket sign, el picket sign Conmigo toda la vida Desde Tejas a California , campesinos est n luchando Desde Tejas a California , campesinos est n luchando Los rancheros a llore-llore, de huelga ya est n bien pandos Un primo que tengo yo andaba regando diches Un primo que tengo yo andaba regando diches Un d a con Pagarulo y el otro con Zaninoviches El picket sign, el picket Hay unos que no comprenden aunque muchos les dan consejos Hay unos que no comprenden aunque muchos les dan consejos La huelga es buena pa todos pero unos se hacen pendejos Me dicen que soy muy necio.

4 Grit n y alborota pueblos Me dicen que soy muy necio, grit n y alborota pueblos Pero Ju rez fue mi t o y Zapata fue mi suegro El picket sign, el picket Y ahora organizando la gente en todos los files Y ahora organizando la gente en todos los files Porque unos solo comen tortillas con puros chiles Ya tenemos muchos a os luchando con esta huelga Ya tenemos muchos a os luchando con esta huelga Un ranchero ya muri y otro si hizo abuelo El picket sign, el picket The Picket Sign LYRICS : Luis Valdez, Music: Traditional (Se Va el Caim n) The picket sign, the picket sign I carry it all day with me The picket sign, the picket sign With me throughout my life.

5 From Texas to California , farm workers are fighting From Texas to California , farm workers are fighting And the growers a -cryin, a-cryin , from the strike they re knuckling under. A cousin of mine was out irrigating ditches A cousin of mine was out irrigating ditches On one day with Pagarulo, the next with Zaninoviches. The picket sign, the picket There are some who don t understand though favored with advice, There are some who don t understand though favored with advice The strike is good for everybody but some play the stupid fool They tell me I m too headstrong, yell too much and incite people They tell me I am too headstrong, yell too much and incite people But Juarez was my uncle, my father-in-law, Zapata The picket sign, the picket And now organizing the workers in all of the fields And now organizing the workers in all of the fields Because some only eat tortillas with nothing else but chiles We ve been many years.

6 Fighting in this strike We ve been many years, fighting in this strike One grower bit the dust, another s a granddaddy The picket sign, the picket (translated by Abby Rivera 1/05) Pastures of Plenty LYRICS : Woody Guthrie; Music: Traditional, Adaptation of the old melody Pretty Polly It s a mighty hard row that my poor hand has hoed My poor feet has traveled a hot, dusty road Out of your dust bowl and westward we rolled And your desert was hot and your mountains was cold I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes Slept on the ground in the light of your moon On the edge of your city you ll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind California and Arizona, I make all your crops Then it s north up to Oregon to gather your hops Dig the beets from your ground.

7 Cut the grapes from your vine To set on your table your light sparkling wine Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground From that Grand Coulee Dam where the water runs down Ever state in this union us migrants have been We ll work in this fight and we ll fight till we win Well, it s always we ramble that river and I All along your green valleys I ll work till I die My rights I ll defend with my life if it be Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free Solidaridad Pa Siempre Music: battle hymn of the republic by Julia Ward Howe & William Steffe, 1861 Spanish LYRICS : August n Lira, Luis Valdez and Felipe Cant (Sung to these LYRICS in Spanish) Solidaridad pa siempre Solidaridad pa siempre Solidaridad pa siempre Que viva nuestra uni n!

8 En las vi as de la ira luchan por su libertad Todos los trabajadores quieren ya vivir en paz Y por eso compa eros nos tenemos que juntar Con solidaridad Solidaridad pa Vamos, vamos campesinos los derechos a pelear Con el coraz n en alto y con fe en la unidad Que la fuerza de los pobres como las olas del mar La injusticia va a inundar Solidaridad pa ** Solidarity Forever (Literal translation) Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Long live our union In the vineyards of wrath they fight for their liberty All the workers now want to live in peace And that is why companions we need to unite With solidarity Come, let s proceed, farmworkers To fight for our rights With our spirits held high and with faith in unity Because the strength of the poor like the waves of the sea Will inundate injustice Solidarity Forever Music: battle hymn of the republic by Julia Ward Howe & William Steffe, 1861 English LYRICS .

9 Ralph Chaplin, 1915 (Sung to these LYRICS in English) Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the union makes us strong! When the union s inspiration through the workers blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun For what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one But the union makes us strong Solidarity They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn We can break the growers power, gain our freedom while we learn That the union makes us strong Solidarity Deportee (Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Marty Hoffman 1961)

10 The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps You re flying them back to that Mexican border It takes all their money to wade back again Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maria You won t have a name when you ride the big airplane And all they will call you will be deportee My father s own father, he waded that river They took all the money he made in his life My sisters and brothers come work in the fruit trees Rode that truck till they went down and died Some of us are illegal and others not wanted Our work contract s out and we ve got to move on Six hundred miles to that Mexican border They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills Who are these dear friends, all scattered like dry leaves?