Cuban soldier    (video)

 

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1. Far away in a Spanish dungeon a Cuban soldier lay,

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    slowly dying from the torture inflicted day by day.

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    He begged to send a message, but his kindness was denied,

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    so he called his comrades to him and told his story 'ere he died.

 

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When Cuba gains her freedom, and the Spaniards cease to reign,

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there's a loved one on that island I will never see again.

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Oh, find her for me, comrades, and tell her you were by my side,

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and I bid you take this message to a soldier's promised bride.

 

+  instrumental = CHORUS, lines 3 & 4

 

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2. 'Tis the same old story, comrades, love weeps when duty is done,

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    when Cuba was struggling for her freedom I was ordered to my gun.

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    Though I'm a captain dying, the struggle will soon be o'er,

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    tell her I said to meet me where the soldiers fight no more.

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (The Carter Family)