Heroe Caido
Cidra 2015 · USA
- Artist
- Juan Oyola
- Title
- Heroe Caido
- Release
- Heroe caido / Recuerdo de aquella noche
- Label
- Cidra # 2015
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Juan Oyola
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Corrido · Ranchera · Tejano
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs
The track "Heroe caido" ("Fallen Hero") (Cidra Records # 2015) is a corrido paying tribute to a soldier killed in action (K.I.A.) in Vietnam: "My brother has fallen in a land called Vietnam" - narrated from the domestic, home front perspective. The brother informs their mother of the death, "when I told her the news she fell backwards" (fainted). No further information is known about this artist and record label. Transcription and translation by Joel Garcia.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Since my brother fell in the land of Vietnam, I couldn't defend him / Not even by being over there; my little brother cried out "come over here", and while I wept I broke the news to Mama / When I gave her the news she fell backwards: "My son, I can't see him, he seems to be here" / And last night I dreamed they were coming back from there, and now one returns alone; I keep waiting for the other, who will never come back / And if I give him up to God, who is ours, who is supreme, when we depart from here I will see him in eternity __________ Spanish: Como callo mi hermano entierra de vietnam no pude defendelrlo / Ni porque estaba alla ritaba mi hermanito asercate pa alla y mientras yo lloraba la avisaba a mama / Quando di la noticia se callo para atras, hijo mio no lo veo, parese etsar aca / Y a noche yo soñaba que veian de alla y ahora regresa solo sigo esperando el otro que nunca volvera / Y si lo entrego a dios que es nuestro, es supremo, quando aqui partamos lo ver en la eternidad