Crucero Belgrano
Saul Huenchul
Belgrano Cruiser
It was full autumn, it was just in May
Gallop the year of '82
And over the waters of the cold seas
Marched a cruiser that never returned
Almost half a century the skies saw it
From port to port fulfilling its mission
And even in North America it stayed in history
When in '40 it was attacked by Japan
Belgrano Cruiser, lord of the waters
What white epic with a gambling soul
With how many soldiers you went to the bottom
When they torpedoed you in the southern sea
The boys of providence tell
That reddish flames could be seen, just at the moment
When two shots from a submarine, Lucifer shot
That's why I don't understand
The words of some gentlemen
Because think, you
They sink a ship, our homeland bleeds
And you practice English
What will Carrizo say, who in his poor raft
Thirty-something hours fought against the sea
After jumping from that great Belgrano
That as it felt sinking, looked the other way
Whips of the wind, bucking of the water
Poor man riding the sea
With hopes that if God helps him
Some companion will come to look for him
Because there in the cold of a stormy sea
An Argentine ship, England sank
And it was that cruiser that with many men
Departed on the second of May and never returned
