Saludemos la Patria orgullosos

**"Saludemos la Patria orgullosos"** (; "Salute the Motherland Proudly") is the national anthem of El Salvador.

## Lyrics 
### Short version 
### Full version 
#### Spanish original 
***Coro:***
Saludemos la patria orgullosos
De hijos suyos podernos llamar;
Y juremos la vida animosa,
Sin descanso a su bien consagrar.
 
De la paz en la dicha suprema,
Siempre noble soñó El Salvador;
Fue obtenerla su eterno problema,
Conservarla es su gloria mayor.
Y con fe inquebrantable el camino
Del progreso se afana en seguir
Por llenar su grandioso destino,
Conquistarse un feliz porvenir.
Le protege una férrea barrera
Contra el choque de ruin deslealtad,
Desde el día que en su alta bandera
Con su sangre escribió: ¡LIBERTAD!
 
***Coro***
 
Libertad es su dogma, es su guía
Que mil veces logró defender;
Y otras tantas, de audaz tiranía
Rechazar el odioso poder.
Dolorosa y sangrienta es su historia,
Pero excelsa y brillante a la vez;
Manantial de legítima gloria,
Gran lección de espartana altivez.
No desmaya en su innata bravura,
En cada hombre hay un héroe inmortal
Que sabrá mantenerse a la altura
De su antiguo valor proverbial.
 
'**Coro**'
 
Todos son abnegados, y fieles
Al prestigio del bélico ardor
Con que siempre segaron laureles
De la patria salvando el honor.
Respetar los derechos extraños
Y apoyarse en la recta razón
Es para ella, sin torpes amaños
Su invariable, más firme ambición.
Y en seguir esta línea se aferra
Dedicando su esfuerzo tenaz,
En hacer cruda guerra a la guerra:
Su ventura se encuentra en la paz.

#### English translation 
:**CHORUS:**
:Let us salute the motherland,
:Proud to be called her children.
:To her well-being let us swear
:Boldly and unceasingly to devote our lives.

:Devote our lives! (repeat 4 times)
:Of peace enjoyed in perfect happiness,
:El Salvador has always nobly dreamed.
:To achieve this has been her eternal proposition,
:To keep it, her greatest glory.
:With inviolable faith, she eagerly follows
:The way of progress
:In order to fulfil her high destiny
:And achieve a happy future.
:A stern barrier protects her
:Against the clash of vile disloyalty,
:Ever since the day when her lofty banner,
:In letters of blood, wrote "Freedom",
:Wrote "Freedom", wrote "Freedom". 

:CHORUS 

:Freedom is her dogma and her guide;
:A thousand times she has defended it,
:And as many times has she repelled
:The hateful power of atrocious tyranny.
:Her history has been bloody and sad,
:Yet at the same time sublime and brilliant,
:A source of legitimate glory
:And a great lesson in Spartan pride.
:Her innate bravery shall not waver:
:In every man there is an immortal hero
:Who knows how to maintain the level
:Of the proverbial valour of old.

:CHORUS

:All are self-denying and faithful
:To the tradition of warlike ardour
:With which they have always reaped fame
:By saving the motherland's honour.
:To respect the rights of others
:And base her actions on right and justice
:Is for her, without infamous intrigue,
:The constant and most firm ambition.
:And in following this line she persists,
:Dedicating her tenacious efforts
:In giving hard battle for battle;
:Her happiness is found in peace.

:CHORUS

### Nawat version 
### More poetic translation
**Chorus**
||: Let's greet the homeland, proud we stand,
As children, we are proud to call her.
Let's pledge our lives with a joyful heart,
Forever to her good, we will devote. :||
||: Devote, devote. :||

**I**
In the peace of the highest joy awaited,
Noble was the dream of El Salvador;
It was to gain peace, their endless challenge,
To keep it is their greatest glory more.

And with unyielding faith, they journey on
In progress, striving towards the bright dawn (the bright dawn).
To fill their grand destiny of honor,
To win a future, bright and full of grace.

A strong barrier keeps them safe and sound,
Against the blows of deceit and betrayal,
Since the day they wrote on their high banner,
With their blood they declared: "LIBERTY!"
||: They declared: "LIBERTY!" :||

***Chorus***

## Other websites 
* http://saludemos-la-patria-orgullosos.ask.dyndns.dk/