Unofficial English Translation
- Friend, do you hear the crows' dark flight over our plains?
- Friend, do you hear the muffled cries of the country being shackled?
- Ahoy! Resistants, workers and farmers, the alarm has sounded!
- Tonight the enemy shall know the price of blood and tears.
- Climb out of the mine, come down from the hills, comrades,
- Take the guns, the munitions and the grenades from under the straw;
- Ahoy killers, with bullets and knives kill swiftly!
- Ahoy "saboteur", be careful with your burden of dynamite!
- We're the ones who smash the bars of jails, for our brothers,
- Hate pursuing us, it's hunger that drives us, dire poverty.
- There are countries where people sleep in their beds and dream.
- Here, you see, we walk and we kill and we die
- Here, each one of us knows what he wants, what he does when he passes by;
- Friend, if you fall, a friend comes from the shadows in your place.
- Tomorrow, black blood will dry in the sun on the roads
- Sing, companions, in the night, freedom listens to us.
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