The Compañeros

The good ship Granma lies at anchor in the harbour
 Waiting for the evening tide
 To rise and bring high water
 Bound for Cuba she must go
 Across the Gulf of Mexico
 And The Caribbean Ocean
 She's carrying a human cargo 83 good companeros
 Each one burning with determination to be free
 Against Batista, The Fidelistas
 Courage was their armour
 As they fought at Fidel's side
 With Che Guevara
 Five days out from Mexico these Companeros
 Landed on the Cuban beach Los Colarados
 Fidel said this year will see
 Our country and our people free
 Or else we will be martyrs
 We've only guns enough for twenty
 The enemy has arms a plenty
 Meet him and defeat him and he'll keep us well supplied
 Against Batista, The Fidelistas
 Courage was their armour
 As they fought at Fidel's side
 With Che Guevara
 Five weeks later in the Canyon De La Rio
 Fidels army was reduced to 18 Companeros
 Hungry, weak and unafraid
 Learning revolutions trade
 In the high Sierra Maestre
 Where the mountain winds did blow
 Bearing seeds to sprout and sow
 New crops in Cuban soil that marked the death of slavery
 Companeros, tu valaderos
 Courage was their armour
 As they fought at Fidel's side
 With Che Guevara
 They made their way across the peak of El Torquino
 Joined by bands of volunteers and the men from Santiago
 They faced Batista's tanks and trains
 Drove them back across the plains
 From the high Sierra Maestre
 They drove the gangsters from Los Vios
 Straight across the Cordileros
 Santa Barbra fell to Che Guevara and was free
 Companeros, tu valaderos
 Courage was their armour
 As they fought at Fidel's side
 With Che Guevara
 The fire lit on that Cuban beach by Fidel Castro
 Still shines all the way to Terra del Fuego
 Sparks are blown upon the breeze
 People rise from off their knees
 When they see the night is burning
 It blazes up in Venezuela, Bolivia and Guatemala
 Lights the road that we must go in order to be free
 Companeros, Americanos
 Courage was their armour
 As they fought at Fidel's side
 With Che Guevara
 Courage was their armour
 As they fought at Fidel's side
 With Che Guevara