Where Camilo fell
a cross was born,
not of wood
but of light.
They killed him as he went
for his rifle,
Camilo Torres dies
to live.
It is said that after the bullet
a voice was heard.
It was God shouting:
Revolution!
Inspect the cassock,
my general,
a sexton fits
in the guerrilla army.
They nailed him with bullets
in a cross,
they called him outlaw
as they did Jesus.
And when they came down
for his rifle,
they found that the town
had one hundred thousand.
One hundred thousand Camilos
ready to fight,
Camilo Torres dies
to live.