Elegia a Salvador Allende - Carlos Puebla

{Verse 1}
I who sang for your life
Full of clear and pure light
Today I sing for the bitterness
That your departure leaves us

{Chorus}
Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will emerge higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

{Verse 2}
They were traitorous rifles
That they were hiding in betrayal
And hands that responded
To the cruelest grudges

{Chorus}
Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will emerge higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

{Verse 3}
It was the foreign rifle
It was fratricidal resentment
It was the hidden shadow
In the shadow of steel

{Chorus}
Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will emerge higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

{Verse 4}
It was the resentment that is strength
To show your intentions
Since they had no reasons
They had to use force

{Chorus}
Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will emerge higher and more glorious
A much better Chile

{Verse 5}
But it has been truncated
The hope they were looking for
They thought they were killing you
And you are more alive than ever

{Chorus}
Oh Salvador Allende, Salvador!
From your generous gesture
Will emerge higher and more glorious
A much better Chile