Guatemala

Original Spanish Words

¡Guatemala feliz! que tus aras

no profane jamás el verdugo

ni haya exclavos que laman el yugo

ni tiranos que escupan tu faz.

Si mañana tu suelo sagrado

lo amenaza invasión extranjera,

libre al viento tu hermosa bandera

a vencer o a morir llamará.

CHORUS

Libre al viento tu hermosa bandera

a vencer o a morir llamará

que tu pueblo con ánima fiera

antes muerta que esclavo será.

English :

Fortunate Guatemala! May your altars

Never be profaned by cruel men.

May there never be slaves who submit to their yoke,

Or tyrants who deride you.

If tomorrow your sacred soil

Should be threatened by foreign invasion,

Your fair flag, flying freely in the wind,

Will call to you: Conquer or die.

CHORUS

Your fair flag, flying freely in the wind,

Will call to you: Conquer or die;

For your people, with heart and soul,

Would prefer death to slavery.