Slaves of the Rancheros
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Through secularization
Rancheros claim deed
With land confiscation
We are bound to thee
Driven by force
Lawful decree
Indentured servants
Poor pedigree
We neophytes
Beggars made be
Our own earth pulled from under feet
Lest we forget
Chattel to breed
Disposed hand
Hacienda debris
And twas for naught
Work sets us free
Unmarked graves are buried beneath
On the edge of subsistence
Starving in place
No provisions or parcel
Only a slave estate
As we work on the land
No longer our own
Ghosts haunting the grounds
That we once called home
Translatio imperii
Sangre y oro
Nueva frontera
Alta California
Now dig deeper and weep
Our homelands defiled, barren, and bleak
Remove, rip out root and stem
How heavy the hand that tends the land
Go dig deeper and weep
Inheriting nothing, no land for the meek
Castrate, cut out, lineage be damned
How heavy the hand that tends the land
At the gates of perdition
With no shelter to dwell
We the hopeless peasants
Now condemned to hell
And what dreams we may keep
Locked up inside
Remain out of reach
To those in this life
Now dig deeper and weep
Our homelands defiled, barren, and bleak
Remove, rip out root and stem
How heavy the hand that tends the land
Go dig deeper and weep
Inheriting nothing, no land for the meek
Castrate, cut out, lineage be damned
How heavy the hand that tends the land