Verse 1Fidel And Che Guevara Lay In The Ship At Anchor In The HarbourWaiting For The Evening Tide To Rise And Bring High Water.Bound For Cuba She Must GoAcross The Gulf Of Mexico And The Caribbean OceanShe’s Carrying A Human CargoEighty Three Good CompañerosEach One Burning With Determination To Be FreeChorus 1Against Batista,The Fidelistas,Courage Was Their Armour As They Fought At Fidel’s Side With Che Guevara.Verse 2Ten Days Out From Mexico These CompañerosLanded On The Cuban Beach Los ColaradosFidel Said This Year Will SeeOur Country And Our People Free Or Else We Will Be MartyrsWe’ve Only Guns Enough For TwentyThe Enemy Has Arms A PlentyMeet Him And Defeat Him And He’ll Keep Us Well SuppliedChorus 1Against Batista,The Fidelistas,Courage Was Their Armour As They Fought At Fidel’s Side With Che Guevara.Verse 3Five Weeks Later In The Canyon De La RioFidel’s Army Had Been Reduced To Eighteen CompañerosHungry, Weak And Unafraid,Learning Revolutions Trade In The High Sierra MaestreWhere The Mountain Winds Did BlowBearing Seeds To Sprout And SowCrops In Cuban Soil That Marked The Death Of SlaveryChorus 2On Compañeros,To El UlveroCourage Was Their Armour As They Fought At Fidel’s Side With Che GuevaraVerse 4They Fought Their Way Across The Peak Of El TorquinoJoined By Bands Of Volunteers And The Men From SantiagoThey Faced Batista’s Tanks And Trains,Drove Them Back Down To Plains, From The High Sierra MaestreThey Drove The Gangsters From Los ViosStraight Across The CordilerosSanta Barbra Fell To Che Guevara And Was Free.Chorus 2On Compañeros,To El UlveroCourage Was Their Armour As They Fought At Fidel’s Side With Che GuevaraVerse 5The Fire Lit On That Cuban Beach By Fidel CastroStill Shines All The Way To Terra Del FuegoSparks 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 GuatamalaLights The Road That We Must Go In Order To Be FreeOutroOn CompañerosAmericanosCourage Was Their Armour As They Fought At Fidel’s Side With Che GuevaraCourage Was Their Armour As They Fought At Fidel’s Side With Che Guevara
