Canción para mi soldado
Silvio Rodriguez
Song for my soldier
If I fall on the road
make my rifle sing
and show it its destiny
because it must not die.
If I fall on the road,
as it can happen,
let my friend continue the song
fulfilling his duty.
Death puts a whistle
in the ears of man,
a song that has no name,
a song that seeks its trill,
fulfills in the jungle the destiny
simple of a militant man,
the turn of the moments
of his true fate
as death commands me,
with its burning word.
If I fall on the road
make my rifle sing
and show it its destiny
because it must not die.
If I fall on the road,
as it can happen,
let my friend continue the song
fulfilling his duty.
Song for my soldier
is the one I want to sing
and with it confess
that it is a song in love
because it is sung by the one next to me,
the one from yesterday, the one from tomorrow.
Song that was born once
when we sailed the world
when we chose the course
under the star of Che.
If I fall on the road
make my rifle sing
and show it its destiny
because it must not die.
If I fall on the road,
as it can happen,
let my friend continue the song
fulfilling his duty.
