[dundee] RMS Protest Song On Gitmo

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  RMS Protest Song On Gitmo
 *Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 21, @04:46PM*
*from the serious-parody dept.*
 [image: Music] <http://politics.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=141> [image: GNU
is Not Unix] <http://politics.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=117> [image:
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 An anonymous reader tipped us to a protest song RMS has written and
recorded <http://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg> (while visiting
Cuba<http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/17/1337233&tid=117>)
and is hosting on stallman.org. It's a sort of parody, although it's too
serious really to be called that, in Spanish of the song "Guantanamera," in
which a Gitmo prisoner talks about his experiences and mourns his fate. RMS
wrote the lyrics in 2006 after learning what "Guantanamera" actually means.
The lyrics are moving, and the recording, in Ogg, is competent — RMS sings
well and he's got some amateur musicians from Cuba backing him up. Here are
the lyrics and an English
translation<http://www.stallman.org/doggerel.html#Guantanamero>.



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