 Author of the Cuban National Anthem, which music was performed for the first time in a religious celebration in the church of the town of San Salvador de Bayamo and later, in 1868, when the troops fighting for independence took over the city, he wrote the lyrics: Al combate corred, bayameses/ que la Patria os contempla orgullosa,/ no temáis una muerte gloriosa/ que morir por la Patria es vivir./ En cadenas vivir, es vivir/ en afrenta y oprobio sumidos./ Del clarín escuchad el sonido/ a las armas, valientes, corred.
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