Soldado Imperial

It is a first person corrido told by a bodyguard: the man who protects his boss and lives glued to the radio. "Es para avisarme cuando entran contrarios" (it's to warn me when rivals come in), he explains, and he paints himself always ready with a ranch pun: "Siempre ando al tirante, como un overol" (I'm always on my straps, like a pair of overalls). The sierra is in the details, "Paseando en mi Razor, detrás de un convoy" (cruising in my Razor behind a convoy), and the title comes from his trade: "Protejo el imperio con plomo y veneno" (I protect the empire with lead and poison). Then the corrido softens to talk about his family and his losses: "Hay buenas y malas, pero así es la vida" (there are good times and bad, but that's life).