¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!

"¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!" is a Mexican ranchera song composed by Manuel Esperón with lyrics by Ernesto Cortázar Sr. It was written in 1941 and featured in the 1941 Mexican film ¡Ay Jalisco, no te rajes!, after which it became an enormous hit in Mexico. The melody of the song was used for the title song of the Disney film The Three Caballeros. Both songs have been recorded by many artists.

The song envisions a romance between the Mexican state of Jalisco and its capital city of Guadalajara. In their book Writing Across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America, Ángel Rama and David Frye posit that the song portrays the common stereotype of Jalisco being "a paradigm of 'Mexicanness'.

Though part of the ranchera genre, the song has the rhythmic patterns of a polka. Mariachis will often include the song in their repertoire, and in the Southwestern United States, a modified two-step associated with conjunto music may be danced to it.

The song has been covered by many different artists including Vicente Fernández,Plácido Domingo,Lola Beltrán,Julio Iglesias,Trío Los Panchos,El Charro Gil y Sus Caporales,Francisco Canaro and Pedrito Fernández.

Senator Ted Kennedy sang the song in Texas and in New Mexico while campaigning for Barack Obama during the 2008 Presidential Elections.

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