A Don José!

Come to that Creole surround
Surround, surround
The countrymen tell him
My general
The countrymen tell him
My general
He is illuminating with his voice
The darkness
And even the stones know
Where is it going?
And even the stones know
Where is it going?

With freedom, I neither offend nor fear
What a Don José!
Oriental in life
And in death too
Oriental in life
And in death too

Come see the Indians form
The squadron
And prepare the brown ones
The heart
And prepare the brown ones
The heart

From stove to stove
The voice is heard
If the homeland calls me
Here I am!
If the homeland calls me
Here I am!

With freedom, I neither offend nor fear
What a Don José!
Oriental in life
And in death too
Oriental in life
And in death too