Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
[Verse 1]
When we look at history
And how it's all unwound
There are few people on this planet
That have been more tightly bound
With the liberation
Of our troubled human race
Than the man from Santiago with the beard upon his face
Dressed in green fatigues
That he wore most of his years
As he led his country longer
Than any of his peers
And few men have been vilified
More often in the news
Than Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
[Verse 2]
Born into a country
Of Dengue and despair
Rulеd by foreign armies evеr since Columbus got there
He rejected his priveledge
And joined humanity
Forced to choose between his species and his family
And when legal means had failed to stop the suffering he saw
He decided it was high time
To work outside the law
He organized a revolution
With the rightful and the fuse [?]
Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
[Verse 3]
When you win a revolution
You might stop when you're ahead
But in Havana declaration the revolutionaries said
"Wherever people anywhere are found to be oppressed
As long as we have hearts that beat within our chests
It is our duty to support them", and Cuba sent their troops
And Cuba sent their doctors in ever larger groups
And their leader was the one in the tracksuit and running shoes
Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
[Verse 4]
It could have been someone else
And he might be the first to say
"The movement makes the leader
Not the other way"
But around the world right now sitting at their dinner plates
There are people praising this man who stood up to the United States
And lived life as a beacon
For a new society
With housing, healthcare, education, and the human right to diginity
Central to the vision
For which he stood accused
Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
[Verse 5]
I can't predict the future
But if the past is any indication
Many more will follow the trail of the little Cuban nation
And soon in Havana
I hope that we may see
A statue of the man to go beside Jose Martin
But wherefore goes Havana, or Angola, Mozambique
I'll always remember
The big mans rosy cheeks
If the world could vote for a leader
How many just might choose
Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz?
Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz?