| Nací para cantar estas tristezas
| I was born to sing these sorrows
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| Meter la luz ente las alimañas
| Put the light between vermin
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| Recorrer la impudicia con un rayo
| Go through impudence with lightning
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| Tocar las cicatrices inhumanas
| Touch the inhuman scars
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| Americano soy de padre y madre
| American I am from father and mother
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| Nací de las cenizas araucanas
| I was born from the Araucanian ashes
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| Pues cuando el invasor buscaba el oro
| Well, when the invader was looking for the gold
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| Fuego y dolor le adelantó mi patria
| Fire and pain overtook my country
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| Acaricio el recuerdo los héroes
| I caress the memory of the heroes
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| Riego subterráneas esperanzas
| underground irrigation hopes
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| Porque, de qué serviría el canto
| Because what good would singing
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| El don de la belleza y de la palabra
| The gift of beauty and words
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| Si no sirvieran para que mi pueblo
| If they did not serve so that my people
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| Conmigo combatiera, conmigo caminara?
| Would you fight with me, would you walk with me?
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| Yo represento tribus que cayeron
| I represent tribes that fell
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| Defendiendo banderas bien amadas
| Defending flags well loved
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| Y no quedó sino silencio y lluvia
| And there was nothing but silence and rain
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| Después del esplendor de sus batallas
| After the splendor of their battles
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| Pero yo continúo sus acciones
| But I continue their actions
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| Y por toda la tierra americana
| And all over the American land
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| Sacudo los dolores de mis pueblos
| I shake the pains of my peoples
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| Incito la raíz de sus espadas | I incite the root of their swords |