A la huelga
Rolando Alárcon
To the strike
To the strike, comrade;
don't go to work.
Leave the tool alone
it's time to fight.
To the strike ten, to the strike a hundred,
to the strike, mother, I'm going too.
To the strike a hundred, to the strike a thousand,
me for them, mother, and they for me.
Against the government of hunger
we will rise
all the workers,
elbow to elbow with bread.
From the well and the field,
from the lathe and the loom,
long live the men of the people,
to the federal strike!
All the peoples of the world
will lend us a hand
to restore to Spain
its lost freedom.
The version cited is that of Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Rolando Alarcón sings:
* From the well and the plow
