Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population and regionally in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla, where the holiday is called El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (English: The Day of the Battle of Puebla). The date is observed in the United States as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride, and to commemorate the cause of freedom and democracy during the first years of the American Civil War. In the state of Puebla, the date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. Contrary to widespread popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico—which is actually celebrated on September 16.
Cinco de Mayo has its roots in the French occupation of Mexico, which took place in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, the Mexican Civil War of 1858, and the 1860 Reform Wars. These wars left the Mexican Treasury in ruins and nearly bankrupt. On July 17, 1861, Mexican President Benito Juárez issued a moratorium in which all foreign debt payments would be suspended for two years. In response, France, Britain, and Spain sent naval forces to Veracruz to demand reimbursement. Britain and Spain negotiated with Mexico and withdrew, but France, at the time ruled by Napoleon III, decided to use the opportunity to establish a Latin empire in Mexico that would favor French interests, the Second Mexican Empire.
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Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to middle-class Polish American parents, Edward "Eddie" Kostyra (c. 1912 – 1979) and Jadwiga Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra (b. September 16, 1914, Buffalo, New York – d. November 16, 2007, Norwalk, Connecticut). She lived in Jersey City until the age of 3, when her family moved to Nutley. She was raised in Nutley along with her five siblings. She took the name "Grace" for her confirmation name before graduating from Nutley High School.
Down on Olivera Street a Mexicano cry
A grito, te quiero, te quiero, te' adoro
This is where the Anglo gets his Latin lover's sigh
Adios muchachas y bolero, and goodbye
Salsa rumbles rafters in a chop shop filled with cars
Custom shopped and channeled with a drag race in their stars
City of angels, be all you can be
Be movies, be A-list, be seen just to see your part
Repeat, the heartbeat in LA
Cinco de Mayo.
Blow out, denial.
It wasn't fun this time, letting you go.
What if I never, a bullet forever,
Held out my hand to you, we wouldn't have known
Beautiful flow,
Absolute measure, I ain't no pleasure hound
Bus' out of control, plowing the road.
Out on a bender, just Alice falling down
A deepening hole.
I'd never been to Rome until you smiled.
You're about as old and piled.
I used to pray for snow...
Now I just wonder what spell I was under,
Thinking you thought of me as
Something to hold.
I'd never been to Rome until you smiled.
You're about as old and piled.
Cinco de Mayo.
Burn-out, Ohio.
Baby I got, no need to worry
No need to feel
No need to be alone, alone, alone again
Do you know why 'cause I'm around girl
I can see the sadness in your eyes, oh my
I can see the teardrops crying, why, oh why?
I remember them days alone
Oh, so long ago
And I had this really silly crush on you
But I hoped, you'd never know
When you were sitting on your doorstep
Wearing shoes that you've outgrown
Trying really, really hard just to impress you
But you would turn on your radio
(Your favorite song, you'd play)
She would always laugh at me
But I would take it
'Cause I thought she would make it
But all this time, it's been killing me
So I sing
Ooh, ahh, na, na, na
I can see the sadness in your eyes, oh my
I can see the teardrops crying why, oh why?
I can see the sadness in your eyes, oh my
I can see those teardrops crying why, oh why?
I double-rode you down to that secret place
The only world we could be alone
And the sun had hid its face from you
Where we'd usually laugh and be skipping stones
You would tell me about your family
How they'd never ever seen to get along
And pretending it don't hurt you
But the clouds told me something's wrong
(She didn't want to say)
Wanted a life that could not be
But she would fake it
Until she would make it
Still all this time, it's been killing me
So we sing
Ooh, ahh, na, na, na
I can see the sadness in your eyes, oh my
I can see the teardrops crying why, oh why?
I can see the sadness in your eyes, oh my
I can see the teardrops crying why, oh why?
Still all this time, it's been killing me
So we sing
Ooh, ahh, na, na, na
Hope, she needs a little
Hope, she wants to feel the sunshine again
Hope, she needs a little
Hope, she needs to feel her sunshine again
I can see the sadness in your eyes, oh my
I met a little Spanish girl on the fifth of May
A pretty senorita, get down, she lived in east L.A.
Down in 155, the party's alive, there was magic in the air
Feet were flapping, pumping and tapping, dancing everywhere
And the people say,
Cinco de Mayo (X 4)
Instrumental interlude
Home boy down the street in his low riding limousine
It's the funkiest thing on wheels that I've ever seen
So we jumped inside, took a ride, the guys from the neighborhood
Slipped downtown where the people get down, and it made me feel so good
Everybody sang,
Cinco de Mayo (X 4)
Instrumental interlude
From the park we heard the music, there were people all around
Some were singing, some were dancing, we could boogie down
Everybody on the street was jammin' and the band was going strong
So we drank a little wine, we had a good time, and we partied all night long
And the people sang,
The reverend Horton Heat - Cinco de Mayo
Mjes si o to seto dollas
Il westorpuer noemer warnaar
Eres sito iso una
Position corper frontiaar
Cinco de mayo
Dia de arboejo
Soldados para yentes
Cinco de mayo
Fouares wakavade
Indenpendensia
Casa del miourpok
( ) justitia
Cinco de mayo
Dia de arboejo
Soldados para yentes
Cinco de mayo
Mechico vargos mido do
Yeah
SOLO
Mechico mechico
Di er ela avinidad
I demos pro
El enes si dia
Cinco de mayo
Dia de arboejo
Soldados para yentes
Cinco de mayo
this town had sunk its teeth
deep inside of me
and now i struggle just to breath
and this used to be my own safety
the side walks they're torn up
and the memories are grey
I'd rather keep them all that way
cuz i can't relive
all of those nights when i was
afraid that i wouldn't ever be the same
when i was shaking in a cold sweat
cursing all the pain I've had
i can't go back to all this!
(the pain I've had)
i can't go back to all this now
look at me
I'm a mess
a mess of everything
that i never wanted to be
i can't repeat
i can't relive
all of those nights when i was
afraid that i wouldn't ever be the same
when i was shaking in a cold sweat
cursing all the pain I've had
i can't go back to all this
(the pain I've had)
i can't go back to all this
i can't go back to all this NOW
all of those nights when i was
afraid that i wouldn't ever be the same
when i was shaking in a cold sweat
cursing all the pain I've had
i can't go back to all this
(the pain I've had)
i can't go back to all this
Cinco de Mayo
Gonna get real high-o
Everybody's Mexican today
('Viva! Mexico! ) ('Viva! 'Viva! )
Cinco de Mayo
Nobody gonna cry-o
We're gonna drink
And dance the night away
('Ole! )
We don't have to go
Way down to Mexico
We can have a party
Right here
It's that time of year
For our freedom fiesta
We eat too much
We drink too much
And then we siesta
CHORUS
'Viva! Mexico! (ay-yi-yi-yi)
'Viva! Mexico! (ay-yi-yi-yi)
'Viva! Mexico! ('Viva! 'Viva! )
CHORUS
Tequila, cerveza
Salt and lime chaser
'Arriba! 'Arriba! 'Ole!
Sangria, Margarita
Then a little more tequila
And it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
Everyday!
Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
(Live! ) Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
(Give! ) Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
(Eat! ) Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
(Drink! ) Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
(Love! ) Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
Like it's Cinco de Mayo Everyday!
I can't believe
is this the world I breathe?
Those motherfuckers will believe anything they see.