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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2017
They've got me pissed with so much gosh-darn questioning
About what color my flag is, if I'm Conservative or Liberal.
They've got me fired-up with so much gosh-darn finding-out
About whether I'm an ELN-er, EPL-er, support the AUC or if I'm FARC.
They've got me worn-out with so much gosh-darn interrogating
About whether I've been opening my gate for the army and
giving them water from my well …
I'm a hard-working campesino, poor and very honorable,
I live happily but they've got me wound-up like a vine …
Well look misters, I'll answer you all,
I want this to be clear:
I ain't on nobody's side, I do what's right, not what's wrong …
So that's why I beg you, and ask you: questions – no more
Don't screw with me anymore!
–Colombian folk song, “El Campesino Embejucao” by Oscar Humberto GómezMe tienen arrecho con tanta juepuerca preguntadera
que qué color tiene mi bandera que si soy Godo o soy Liberal
Me tienen verraco con tanta juepuerca averiguadera
que si soy Eleno, Epelo o siquiera apoyo a las AUC o soy de las FARC
Me tienen mamao con tanta juepuerca interrogadera
que si yo a la tropa le abro la cerca y si le doy el agua de mi manantial
Yo soy campesino trabajador, pobre y muy honrao
vivía muy alegre pero me tienen embejucao …
Pues miren señores a todos ustedes yo les contesto
y quero que quede muy claro esto:
yo no soy de naide, hago el bien, no el mal …
así que les ruego, suplico y pido: ¡ya no más preguntas,
no me jodan más!
One day in the early 1970s in the village of La India in central Colombia, residents were warming up for a soccer match on a field that was not much more than a clearing in the forest. As one of the referees that day recalled, a ragtag group of guerrillas in campesino garb and boots appeared out of the jungle and asked if they could join. Short on players with few people living in the area, the villagers welcomed them. It was not long before an army patrol arrived.
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