padre de un soldado
Bego BG-426 · McAllen, Texas
- Artist
- Los Dinos
- Title
- padre de un soldado
- Release
- El padre de un soldado / A mi me toco perder
- Label
- Bego # BG-426
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- McAllen, Texas, USA
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Ranchera · Tex-Mex
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — US Domestic Perspective Songs
The ranchera song "El padre de un soldado" (Bego # BG-426) ("The Father of a Soldier") by popular Corpus Christi, Texas, USA group Los Dinos, formed in 1957. This looked at the home front perspective, as the title suggested, about a father of a soldier, who was fighting in the Vietnam War. The record was released in in McAllen, Texas, USA, on one of the record labels owned by Arnaldo Ramírez, the others being ARV, Falcon, and Bronco, all Mexican-American focused, based in Texas, USA. He featured in Billboard on 25 November 1972, in an article focusing on the explosion of Tex-Mex music.1Sources1Billboard, 25 November 1972↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I am a father like many others / Who don't know what to think / For we have our sons / Fighting over there in Vietnam / Miraculous Virgin / Return them as they left / Holy God, I ask you / To have more compassion / For our dear son / Who is in another nation / Think that they took away / Part of my heart / Divine Virgin / Virgin of San Juan / Protect all the soldiers / That find themselves in Vietnam / Goodbye my dear parents / He said to us as he left / He said don't stay sad / I am also going to suffer / I am pure Mexican / And I am not afraid to die / He said goodbye to his girlfriend / And to his brothers also / He gave a hug to his mother / And gave me another as well / He entrusts himself to us / And to God as well / Holy God, you know / What a mother suffered / To give life to her son / Even risking her own life / In exchange for my son's life / I offer you my own / Divine Virgin / Virgin of San Juan / Protect all the soldiers / That find themselves in Vietnam __________ Spanish: Soy un padre como hay muchos / Que no hayamos que pensar / Pues tenemos nuestros hijos / Peleando allá en Vietnam / Virgencita milagrosa / Vuélvelos como se van / Diosito santo te pido / Que tengas más compasión / De nuestro hijo querido / Quien anda en otra nación / Piensa vez que se llevaron / Parte de mi corazón / Virgen divina / Virgencita de San Juan / Protege a todo el soldado / Que se encuentra en Vietnam / Adios mis padres queridos / Nos dijo él al partir / Dijo no se queden…
Notes
Bego BG-426, red and silver label with a crown logo, 415 South 17th, McAllen, Texas; "El Padre de un Soldado", Ranchera, credit "(D. A. R.)"; Los Dinos. No time is printed. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Formed 1957, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
Themes
In collections
US Domestic Perspective Songs [War Years] · Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs