Huella del 96

Trace of '96*

Spoken:

Here comes '96
and once again the freedoms
are looking for a champion
who will stand up for their peers.

And Aparicio Saravia
enters the arena
and with him, the ignored countrymen,
laborers, workers,
free gauchos.

Those who made the homeland,
rightly so,
who cannot be represented,
who cannot vote without being heard,
they will make themselves heard.

Gunpowder and lance,
for their own destiny
and for the homeland.

There are people who don't want revolution
but we all know who they are.

Sung:

Those who never show up to fight
but quickly come out to make peace,
I know why they don't want revolutions
the foreigners who pay those doctors.

Spoken:

If the gauchos rise up, it's not convenient for them,
if the cow moves, there's no one to milk it,
but Aparicio knows how to lead men
and the Aristocrats won't wrap him up.

Sung:

They say there's no money for war
and they throw the titles of their lands at them,
and in the end those patricians realize
that the gauchos are not like them, they are of Aparicio.

*From the musical work 'Chronicle of Free Men' (1972)