Viva Villa! [English translation]

Two rifles, four pistols

And a flick knife

Going to Guadalajara

It’s for a famous carnival

That this arsenal is advancing

Which has Pancho Villa for a name

Soon, at the foot of the cross 1

It will say a short prayer

Then it’ll take its oaths again

And continue its march and its song

Viva Villa! 2

Viva Villa!

Vival Villa!

Four rifles, ten pistols

Fifteen flick knives

Coming from Guadalajara

It’s for a famous carnival

That this arsenal is coming

It's searching for Pancho Villa

If they go to the cross

They will find the revolutionary

They will make him hear reason

Or else swallow his words

Viva Villa!

Viva Villa!

Vival Villa!

Two rifles, four pistols

And a flick knife

Were going to Guadalajara

It was a famous carnival

When the arsenal was blown away

Which called itself Pancho Villa

It is there at the foot of the cross

It just bit the dust

The vultures will leave nothing of it

But the bones and spurs

Viva Villa!

Viva Villa!

Vival Villa!

1. Calvary - a cross or a monument of several crosses 2. Spanish - Long live Villa!

• Artist:Serge Gainsbourg
• Album:L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg