Adios a mi novia
Falcon FLP-2014 · McAllen, Texas
- Artist
- Juan Alfredo Perez
- Title
- Adios a mi novia
- Release
- El hijo del soldado raso
- Label
- Falcon # FLP-2014
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- McAllen, Texas, USA
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Ranchera · Bolero
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs
Vietnam-era compilation released on ECO (No. 498), from Mexico City, Mexico and on Falcon (FLP-2014), a label based in McAllen, Texas, USA. It featured several Mexican-American artists, recording songs about soldiers in the Vietnam War era. Such as Freddie Gómez, born in Los Indios, Texas, USA (6 August 1932). He died in Carricitos, Texas, USA on 3 September 2005. On this compilation, he had the songs "El hijo del soldado raso", "Soldado de levita", "El soldado raso". Several of these artist appeared on the Mexican-American LP Porque estamos en Vietnam discussed below, which together with this record, were released by the Mexican-American record-label owner Arnaldo Ramírez, from Texas, USA. Juan Alfredo Perez featured with several songs, including "Adios a mi novia" ("Goodbye to My Girlfriend"), narrated from the soldier's perspective, missing his partner back home: "in case I die in the battle, pray a lot", and if not, "we would get a house between us". Transcription and translation by Joel Garcia.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Don't forget me, please, when I go / For it isn't easy to part from someone you love / And if by chance I die in battle, pray a lot, and may God hear your prayers / But if God grants me life / And I see you again, we'll make a home between the two of us, and I swear to be with you until death and to give you my heart, as to God / But if God grants me life and I see you again, we'll make a home between the two of us, and I swear to be with you until death and to give you my heart, as to God __________ Spanish: No me olvidas porfavor quando ve vaya / Que no es facil a dejarse de un amor / Y se a caso yo me murir en la batalla resa mucho y que tus rezos oiga dios / Mas si dios me presta vida / Y vuelvo a ver te por haremos un hogar entre los dos y te juro estar contigo hasta la muerte y intregerte, como a dios, mi corazon / Mas si dios me presta vida, y vuelvo a ver te por haremos un hogar entre los dos y te juro estar contigo hasta la muerte y intregerte, como a dios, mi corazon
Notes
Falcon Records FLP-2014 ("Serie 2000"), 12" LP, track B1 "Adiós A Mi Novia"; shared with Freddie Gomez, Fred Vela and Los Picaros. No year, times or writer credits on the record. The same artist's single (Falcon 1521, "Juan Alfredo Pérez con Los Halcones") is probably the same recording. ECO 498 (Mexico) not traced.