Elegía a Salvador Allende

I who sang for your life
Full of clear and pure light
Today I sing for the bitterness
That your departure leaves us

Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will rise higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

They were traitorous rifles
Hiding in betrayal
And hands responding
To the cruelest grudges

Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will rise higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

It was the foreign rifle
It was the fratricidal grudge
It was the hidden shadow
In the shadow of steel

Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will rise higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

It was the grudge that strives
To show its intentions
Since they had no reasons
They had to use force

Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will rise higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

But the hope they sought
Has been cut short
They thought they killed you
And you're more alive than ever

Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will rise higher and more glorious
A much better Chile