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México Lindo y Querido – mariachi song lyrics

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México Lindo y Querido

If I die far from you, bring me back. México Lindo y Querido is the homesick prayer of every Mexican who has ever left.

About the Song

México Lindo y Querido is one of Mexico's most beloved patriotic songs, composed by Chucho Monge in the 1940s and forever associated with Jorge Negrete, the golden-age Mexican cinema and music idol known as El Charro Cantor. The song became an anthem of Mexican national identity and the longing of migrants — the wish to be buried in Mexican soil. It is sung at independence celebrations, on the Day of the Dead, and wherever Mexicans gather far from home. Mariachi Monumental de Sahuayo's version honors the classical ranchero tradition that made this song immortal.

Meaning of the Song

México Lindo y Querido is what you sing when home is both a place and a feeling you carry everywhere. The request is simple and profound: if I die far from you, bring me back. Don't bury me in foreign soil. Let me sleep in my own earth. Every Mexican who has ever left — for work, for family, for survival — knows this ache. The guitar voice in the morning, the pride that needs no apology, the love of a country that is also a lullaby.

Lyrics / Letra

México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí

Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí
México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti

Voz de la guitarra mía
Al despertar la mañana
Quiere cantar su alegría
A mi tierra mexicana

Yo le canto a sus volcanes
A sus praderas y flores
Que son como talismanes
Del amor de mis amores

México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí

Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí

México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti

Y cantale bonito
Como tu sabes andrea

Que me entierren en la sierra
Al pie de los magueyales
Y que me cubra esta tierra
Que es cuna de hombres cabales

Voz de la guitarra mía
Al despertar la mañana
Quiere cantar su alegría
A mi tierra mexicana

México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti
Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí

Que digan que estoy dormido
Y que me traigan aquí
México lindo y querido
Si muero lejos de ti

English Translation

Voice of my guitar
as the morning awakens
I want to sing the joy
of my Mexican land

I am Mexican and for that
I am proud of my homeland

Beautiful and beloved Mexico
If I die far from you
let them say I am sleeping
and bring me back here

Let them say I am sleeping
and bring me back here

Beautiful and beloved Mexico
If I die far from you

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