El Lute

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 (Spoken : )              This is the story of El Lute,
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    a man who was born to be hunted like a wild animal
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    because he was poor, but he refused to accept his fate,
    and today his honour has been restored.

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1. He was only nineteen and was sentenced to die
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    for something that somebody else did, and blamed on El Lute.
    Then they changed it to life, and so he could escape,
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    from then on they chased him, and searched for him day and night,
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    all over Spain, but the search was in vain         for El Lute.
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He had only seen the dark side of life, the man they called El Lute,
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and he wanted a home just like you and like me,
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in a country where all would be free.
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So he taught himself to read and to write, it didn't help El Lute,
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he was one who had dared to escape overnight,
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they had to find El Lute.

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    Soon the fame of his name, spread like wild fire all over the land,
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    with a price on his head people still gave him bread,
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    and they gave him a hand,
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    for they knew he was right, and his fight was their fight.
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2. No one gave you a chance in the Spain of those days,
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    on the walls every place they had put up the face of El Lute.
    And he robbed where he could just like once Robin Hood,
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    they finally caught him and that seemed the end.
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    But they caught him in vain, ’cause a change came for Spain,
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    and El Lute.
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He had only seen the dark side of life, the man they called El Lute,
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and he wanted a home just like you and like me,
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in a country where all would be free.
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So he taught himself to read and to write, it didn't help El Lute,
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he was one who had dared to escape overnight,
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they had to find El Lute.

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