El Guerrillero

The Guerrilla*

recitation:

A heroic old man of a thousand battles,
a guerrilla rises again
and your call
whites and reds come together
that the fight is no longer about parties,
behind the tyrant there are foreigners,
old problems,
new empires,
and he warns that, despite his years,
the guerrilla

The twentieth century looks in amazement
and old Cronos rejuvenates
when they appear,
by the Cuchillas of Cerro Largo,
five hundred men the pile.

They are brave, they are from my land
and the planes fly over them
and they down, prick and spur,
white and red badges,
some winchesters and few bullets

They are alone,
because they have failed
the verbal military,
and as always, they are citizens
those who confront tyrants.

But it does not matter
who is scared?
taking the guerrilla to the front.

sung:

Legendary courage
that makes lions cowards
heroic blood of the leaders
and Spanish noblemen.

Chained freedom
stop feeling afraid
through the Monte de Las Palmas
Basilio Muñoz is coming.

The orientals rise up against Varela
those who do not carry spears carry daggers;
and I leave, tying my hat
the tricolor

You avoid them in Cerro Chato,
surrounded by games
freezes the stride of his horse,
shown by Las Cuchillas.

The night is spent in leagues
as in his youthful years,
because heading to Durazno
that the glorious old man goes.

Freedom asks us for more sacrifices
and to fight for the country, call Aparicio
I leave with him, carrying the famous
Division Two.

Swim across a lagoon
it gets entangled in the ñapindaces,
he cuts himself in the wild straws,
but he doesn't even feel hunger.

He never fought with so few,
He never fought against so many,
never so alone and so pure,
never so pure and so big.

Now Terra sells us
to those outside
to fight for the country
old bone

Come on men!
To confront each other with spears
to airplanes.

Chained freedom
stop feeling afraid
through the Monte de Las Palmas
Basilio Muñoz is coming,

For history and for glory
Basilio Muñoz is coming

*Gives musical work "Chronicles of Free Men" (1972)