Compañeros

Verse 1
GFidel And Che GueDvara Lay In The CShip At Anchor In TheG Harbour
GWaiting For The DEvening Tide To CRise And Bring High GWater.
DBound For Cuba She Must Go
DAcross The Gulf Of Mexico And The Caribbean Ocean
She’s CAmarrying A Human CDargo
Eighty Three Good CompañGeros
CEach One Burning With Determination To Be DFree

Chorus 1
DAgainst GBatista,
The CFidelGistas,
CCourage Was Their DArmour As They FCought At Fidel’s DSide With Che GGuevara.

Verse 2
GTen Days Out DFrom Mexico These CCompañeroGs
GLanded On The DCuban Beach Los CColaradoGs
DFidel Said This Year Will See
DOur Country And Our People Free Or Else We Will Be Martyrs
We’ve AmOnly Guns Enough For DTwenty
The Enemy Has Arms A GPlenty
CMeet Him And Defeat Him And He’ll Keep Us Well DSupplied

Chorus 1
DAgainst GBatista,
The CFidelGistas,
CCourage Was Their DArmour As They CFought At Fidel’s DSide With Che GuGevara.

Verse 3
GFive Weeks Later DIn The Canyon CDe La RiGo
FGidel’s Army Had DBeen Reduced To CEighteen CompañerGos
DHungry, Weak And Unafraid,
DLearning Revolutions Trade In The High Sierra Maestre
AmWhere The Mountain Winds Did DBlow
Bearing Seeds To Sprout And GSow
CCrops In Cuban Soil That Marked The Death Of SlaDvery

Chorus 2
DOn CompañGeros,
CTo El UlGvero
CCourage Was Their DArmour As They CFought At Fidel’s DSide With Che GuGevara

Verse 4
They GFought Their Way DAcross The Peak Of CEl TorquinGo
GJoined By Bands Of DVolunteers And The CMen From SantGiago
DThey Faced Batista’s Tanks And Trains,
DDrove Them Back Down To Plains, From The High Sierra Maestre
They AmDrove The Gangsters From Los DVios
Straight Across The CordilGeros
CSanta Barbra Fell To Che Guevara And Was DFree.

Chorus 2
DOn CompañGeros,
CTo El UlGvero
CCourage Was Their DArmour As They CFought At Fidel’s DSide With Che GuGevara

Verse 5
The GFire Lit On That DCuban Beach By CFidel CastGro
GStill Shines All DThe Way To CTerra Del GFuego
DSparks Are Blown Upon The Breeze,
DPeople Rise From Off Their Knees When They See The Night Is Burning.
It AmBlazes Up In VenezDuela,
Bolivia And GuataGmala
CLights The Road That We Must Go In Order To Be DFree

Outro
DOn CompañGeros
CAmeriGcanos
CCourage Was Their DArmour As They CFought At Fidel’s DSide With Che GuGevara
CCourage Was Their DArmour As They CFought At Fidel’s DSide With Che GuGevara