Normalizing relations with Cuba from Lalo Alcarez's "La Cucaracha"

[FSogol]

[TexasProgresive]

1. Oh! Cucaracha!!

1 When a fellow loves a maiden
And that maiden doesn't love him,
It's the same as when a bald man
Finds a comb upon the highway.

Chorus:
The cucaracha, the cucaracha,
Doesn't want to travel on
Because she hasn't,
Oh no, she hasn't
Marihuana for to smoke.

2 All the maidens are of pure gold;
All the married girls are silver;
All the widows are of copper,
And old women merely tin.

3 My neighbor across the highway
Used to be called Doña Clara,
And if she has not expired
Likely that's her name tomorrow.

4 All the girls up at Las Vegas
Are most awful tall and skinny,
But they're worse for plaintive pleading
Than the souls in Purgatory.

5 All the girls here in the city
Don't know how to give you kisses,
While the ones from Albuquerque
Stretch their necks to avoid misses.

6 All the girls from Mexico
Are as pretty as a flower
And they talk so very sweetly,
Fill your heart quite up with love.

7 One thing makes me laugh most hearty--
Pancho Villa with no shirt on
Now the Carranzistas beat it
Because Villa's men are coming.

8 Fellow needs an automobile
If he undertakes the journey
To the place to which Zapata
Ordered the famous convention.

[brush]

3. Good stuff in that poem on the Mexican civil war.

"Now the Carranzistas beat it
Because Villa's men are coming."

[TexasProgresive]

4. I just love Lalo

I used to have one of his toons as a sig line on DU. I wish I could find it again.

[FSogol]

5. Me too. n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

2. I'd love to see his head explode, along with a bunch of others...

Let's learn a thing or two by allowing a bunch of right wing no-nothings dictate what happened in Cuba. Fuck them.

[niyad]

6. PLEASE let it be so!1