Vayan al Norte - Eliza Gilkyson

We never ask for a handout

Or more than our fair share of pay

Downtown you all know where we stand

Out looking for work by the day

You don’t ask why our farms were abandoned

Or of our choice between vida y muerte

Or why we would take such a gamble

Por las esperanzas del Norte

Vayan al Norte, vayan al Norte…

From Oaxaca to El Paradero

Survival our deepest desire

From the barbed wire de La Frontera

From the frying pan into the fire

Laying low como ladrones

En una tierra de puertas cerradas

Aun podemos escuchar las voces

De nuestros perdidos amados

Vayan al Norte, vayan al Norte

Digan adios y salgan ahora

Atravesan el rio

Queridos no lloran

Vayan con dios y vayan al Norte

Nos despertan en medio del sueno

Las caras de nuestros viejos

Saludan con las manos cansadas

Por ultima vez, adios

Y ahora nunca regresaremos

Y pasamos por su mundo como sombras

Pero una vida nueva hacemos

Aqui en las tierras del Norte

Vayan al Norte…

Atraviesen el rio

Cantan no lloran

Vayan con dios y vayan al Norte

We never ask for a handout

Or more than our fair share of pay

Downtown you all know where we stand

Out looking for work by the day

You don't ask why our farms were abandoned

Or of our choice between life and death

Or why we would take such a gamble

For the hopes of the North

Go North, go North...

From Oaxaca to El Paradero

Survival our deepest desire

From the barbed wire of La Frontera

From the frying pan into the fire

Laying low like thieves

In a land of closed doors

We can still hear the voices

Of our lost loved ones

Go North, go North

Say goodbye and get out now

They cross the river

Darlings don't cry

Go with God and go North

They wake us up in the middle of sleep

The faces of our old

They greet with tired hands

For the last time, goodbye

And now we'll never go back

And we passed through his world like shadows

But a new life we ​​make

Here in the Northlands

Go North...

cross the river

They sing they don't cry

Go with God and go North