Canto a La Mocha

Song to The Mocha

Canto a La Mocha

Old tough companionVieja mocha compañera
Of many generationsDe tantas generaciones
Hunger from the barracksHambre de los barracones
Sugarcane bitternessAmargura azucarera

In your metal song it soundsSuena en tu canto de metal
Steel flakesCopos de acero
That now the cane and the fieldQue ya la caña y el sembral
Belong to the workerSon del obrero

Your steel shone with angerCon rabia brilló tu acero
There in the sugarcane fieldsAllá en los cañaverales
Slave of the fieldsEsclava de los sembrales
Slave like the workerEsclava como el obrero

In your metal song it soundsSuena en tu canto de metal
Steel flakesCopos de acero
That now the cane and the fieldQue ya la caña y el sembral
Belong to the workerSon del obrero

Your steel is no longer punishmentYa tu acero no es castigo
Your steel is no longer a curseYa no es maldición tu acero
Today your steel is a companionHoy tu acero es compañero
Is a companion and friendEs compañero y amigo

Today it seems to me that you understandHoy me parece que entiendes
In the metal of your beingEn el metal de tu entraña
The destiny of the caneEl destino de la caña
That Jesus Meléndez tracedQue trazó Jesús Meléndez

In your metal song it soundsSuena en tu canto de metal
Steel flakesCopos de acero
That now the cane and the fieldQue ya la caña y el sembral
Belong to the workerSon del obrero

Let it resonate in your metalsQue resuene en tus metales
In the task of cuttingEn la faena del corte
That there are no longer wolves from the northQue ya no hay lobos del norte
Over the sugarcane fieldsSobre los cañaverales

In your metal song it soundsSuena en tu canto de metal
Steel flakesCopos de acero