How long has it been
since that autumn day
of an advanced October,
with the sky already dark,
between examination sessions,
days lost in laziness,
rubbish of youth,
the news arrived...
It took us like a fist,
It froze discouragement,
to know in a surly
that Guevara was dead:
in that October day,
in Bolivian land
was betrayed and lost
Ernesto "Che" Guevara...
Books clouded,
the room darkened,
because with him had died
our hope:
they were fairy years of myths sung and disputes,
they were days spent discussing and weaving the beautiful illusions...
"Che" Guevara was dead,
but everyone believed
that his thought with us
remained in the world...
"Che" Guevara was dead,
but everyone believed
that his thought with us
remained in the world...
Seasons passed,
but we continued again
to eat illusions
and truth every hour,
years of each discovery,
years with no regrets:
"Come on Companions, alert,
we have to go on!"
And we always went straight on
with our flags
and singing all
those our chimeras...
In an October day,
in Bolivian land,
with an hundred shots is dead
Ernesto "Che" Guevara...
The third world is crying,
everyone now knows
that "Che" Guevara had died,
He will never return,
but something changed,
the days of those emotions ended
and uplifted head the eternal enemies
against rebellions...
"Che" Guevara was dead
and everyone understood
that a hero was lost,
that something ended...
"Che" Guevara was dead
and everyone understood
that a hero was lost,
that something ended...
And something in the years
ended for real
bumping against the deceptions
of daily living:
Companions of a day
or gone away or sold,
It seems you turn around
a few survivors...
Precisely for this now
I would listen
a voice that still
begins to sing:
In an October day,
in Bolivian land,
with an hundred shots is dead
Ernesto "Che" Guevara...
The third world is crying,
everyone now knows
that "Che" Guevara had died,
He will never return,
but you reactionaries tremble,
Revolutions are not over
and you, to tens, that used
different words, the same prisons,
somewhere one day,
where no one would know,
where you do not expect it,
"Che" will return,
somewhere one day,
where no one would know,
where you do not expect it,
"Che" will return!