Vengo del sur - Illapu

Nací para cantar estas tristezas

Meter la luz ente las alimañas

Recorrer la impudicia con un rayo

Tocar las cicatrices inhumanas

Americano soy de padre y madre

Nací de las cenizas araucanas

Pues cuando el invasor buscaba el oro

Fuego y dolor le adelantó mi patria

Acaricio el recuerdo los héroes

Riego subterráneas esperanzas

Porque, de qué serviría el canto

El don de la belleza y de la palabra

Si no sirvieran para que mi pueblo

Conmigo combatiera, conmigo caminara?

Yo represento tribus que cayeron

Defendiendo banderas bien amadas

Y no quedó sino silencio y lluvia

Después del esplendor de sus batallas

Pero yo continúo sus acciones

Y por toda la tierra americana

Sacudo los dolores de mis pueblos

Incito la raíz de sus espadas

I was born to sing these sorrows

Put the light between vermin

Go through impudence with lightning

Touch the inhuman scars

American I am from father and mother

I was born from the Araucanian ashes

Well, when the invader was looking for the gold

Fire and pain overtook my country

I caress the memory of the heroes

underground irrigation hopes

Because what good would singing

The gift of beauty and words

If they did not serve so that my people

Would you fight with me, would you walk with me?

I represent tribes that fell

Defending flags well loved

And there was nothing but silence and rain

After the splendor of their battles

But I continue their actions

And all over the American land

I shake the pains of my peoples

I incite the root of their swords