Tupamaro

I'm a kid from '63,
the Palermo neighborhood was the one that saw me grow up,
and there I met the magician Pantaleón
who lives down here on Yaguarón Street.

And one time when we were high
he said: 'I can make you travel to the past'
I thought: 'with the sky blue jersey go back to '50,
or be a Tupamaro from the '60s'.

Tupamaro, I didn't make a mistake
Tupamaro, I wanted to be
Tupamaro, I asked the magician.

I traveled in time and fell without anyone expecting
almost mistaken for Amodio Perez.
I told them I came from the future
and that I would fight alongside them to change it.

Soon after, bad luck struck
we all ended up in jail.
We started digging with shovel and pickaxe
to escape the torture of the military.

Tupamaro, I didn't make a mistake
Tupamaro, I wanted to be
Tupamaro, I asked the magician.

I told them we would have a hard time
if the revolution didn't win.
But the spell ended when we reached the goal
escaping through the tunnel of Punta Carretas.

And upon returning, among my clothes I found
the famous flag of the Thirty-Three.
The fascists who still search for it don't know the secret
that the flag is in the drum of the Cuarteto.

Tupamaro, I didn't make a mistake
Tupamaro, I always wanted to be
Tupamaro, I asked the magician.

Tupamaro.
Tupamaro.
I'm a Tupamaro.