Himno Nacional de Guatemala
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{{Infobox anthem
| title = Himno Nacional de Guatemala
| english_title = National Anthem of Guatemala
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| prefix = National
| country = {{GTM}}
| author = [[José Joaquín Palma]]
| lyrics_date =
| composer = [[Rafael Álvarez Ovalle]]
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| adopted = 1896
| until =
| sound = Guatemala.ogg
| sound_title = National Anthem of Guatemala (instrumental)
}}
The '''[[national anthem]] of [[Guatemala]]''' was written by [[José Joaquín Palma]] ([[1844]]-[[1911]]) and composed by [[Rafael Álvarez Ovalle]]. The anthem was adopted in [[1896]] as the winning entry in a competition held by the government.
In 1934 some parts were changed by [[José María Bonilla]].
The anthem is often erroneously "titled" ''Guatemala Feliz!'' from its opening lyrics, but the anthem has no official name and is only referred to in the country as ''Himno Nacional''.
==Spanish lyrics ==
:¡Guatemala feliz...! que tus aras
:no profanen jamás el verdugo;
:ni haya esclavos 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 muerto que esclavo será.
:De tus viejas y duras cadenas
:tu forjaste con mano iracunda
:el arado que el suelo fecunda
:y la espada que salva el honor.
:Nuestros padres lucharon un día
:encendidos en patrio ardimiento
:y lograron sin choque sangriento
:colocarte en un trono de amor.
:CHORUS:
:Y lograron sin choque sangriento
:colocarte en un trono de amor,
:que de Patria, en enérgico acento,
:dieron vida al ideal redentor.
:Es tu enseña pedazo de cielo
:en que prende una nube su albura,
:y ¡ay de aquel que con ciega locura,
:sus colores pretenda manchar!
:Pues tus hijos valientes y altivos,
:que veneran la paz cual presea,
:nunca esquivan la ruda pelea
:si defienden su tierra y su hogar.
:CHORUS:
:Nunca esquivan la ruda pelea
:si defienden su tierra y su hogar,
:que es tan solo el honor su alma idea
:y el altar de la Patria su altar.
:Recostada en el Ande soberbio,
:de dos mares al ruido sonoro,
:bajo el ala de grana y de oro
:te adormeces del bello quetzal.
:Ave indiana que vive en tu escudo,
:paladión que protege tu suelo;
:¡ojalá que remonte su vuelo,
:más que el cóndor y el águila real!
:CHORUS:
:¡Ojalá que remonte su vuelo,
:más que el cóndor y el águila real,
:y en sus alas levante hasta el cielo,
:Guatemala, tu nombre inmortal!
==English translation==
:Happy Guatemala, may your altar
:Never be trampled by the tormentor
:Nor should slaves lick the yoke
:Nor should tyrants spit in your face
:If tomorrow your sacred soil
:Is threatened by foreign invasion
:Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
:To victory or death it will call
:CHORUS
:Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
:To victory or death it will call
:Since your people, with fiery soul
:Will die before becoming slaves
:From your old and hard chains
:You forged, with an ire-driven hand,
:The plow that fertilizes the soil
:And the sword that saves honor.
:Our fathers fought one day,
:Lit up in patriotic burning
:And they were able, without bloody clash,
:To place you on a throne of love.
:And they were able, without bloody clash,
:To place you on a throne of love,
:That our Nation, in energetic assent,
:Gave life to the ideal redeemer.
:Your emblem shows a piece of the sky
:In which a cloud gets its whiteness
:Wretched is he who dares in madness
:stain your colors
:Well, your brave and proud sons
:who admire the peace within
:will never avoid the rough battles
:if they are to defend their land and their home.
:CHORUS
:They will never avoid the rough battles
:if they are to defend their land and their home
:that honor is the idea that reigns their souls
:and the altar of the mother country their altar
:Lying in the magnificent Ande
:with two oceans at hearing distance
:under the wing of seeds and gold
:you become entranced from the beautiful quetzal
:Native bird that lives in your seal
:protector that protects your soil
:hopefully he will fly high
:more than the condor and the royal eagle!
:CHORUS
:Hopefully he will fly high
:more than the condor and the royal eagle
:and in his wings, raise up to the sky:
:Guatemala, your immortal name!
{{National Anthems of North America}}
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