Before called the Bayamo Anthem. The lawyer and musician, Perucho Figueredo, composed in 1857 the melody and a year later, on October 20th, 1868, he wrote the lyrics when the Cuban troops took the City of Bayamo, same lyrics that became our National Anthem years later:
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.