I Come from the South [Song of Protest]

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I was born to sing these sorrows, to expose destructive beasts, to contain shamelessness with a scourge, to touch inhuman scars.

I am of American parentage, born from Araucanian ashes, for when the invader searched for gold my country attacked him with fire and pain.

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