Canto a La Mocha
Carlos Puebla
Song to The Mocha
Old tough companion
Of many generations
Hunger from the barracks
Sugarcane bitterness
In your metal song it sounds
Steel flakes
That now the cane and the field
Belong to the worker
Your steel shone with anger
There in the sugarcane fields
Slave of the fields
Slave like the worker
In your metal song it sounds
Steel flakes
That now the cane and the field
Belong to the worker
Your steel is no longer punishment
Your steel is no longer a curse
Today your steel is a companion
Is a companion and friend
Today it seems to me that you understand
In the metal of your being
The destiny of the cane
That Jesus Meléndez traced
In your metal song it sounds
Steel flakes
That now the cane and the field
Belong to the worker
Let it resonate in your metals
In the task of cutting
That there are no longer wolves from the north
Over the sugarcane fields
In your metal song it sounds
Steel flakes
