Translation of the song by Victor Jara
For the right to live their lives
The people of Vietnam
Have faced the soldiers’ guns
The chemicals and the bombs,
Have planted themselves to the land
For the day of their release
and the right to live their lives in peace
On the shores of Vietnam
Where the nights are lit by the flash
Iron eagles with napalm breath
that turns the land to ash
The stars themselves fall like bombs-
But the struggle has never ceased
For the right to live in our lives in peace
We fill our song with love,
And set it out on the breeze
To bring the white doves home
to the arms to the olive trees
That blossom in Palestine
The world rises from our knees-
For the right to live our lives in peace