Words and Melody:  Carlos Mejia Godoy, early 1980s?
Arranged:  Ricardo Andino, 1987 and Miguel Heatwole, 1990

Written after the overthrow of the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979, this love song compared revolutionary Nicaragua to flowers and honey, and declared that now, since you are free, I love you even more. The reference to Diriangen is to a warrior of the Chorotega tribe who inflicted heavy defeats on the Spanish invaders early in the sixteenth century.

Ay Nicaragua, Nicaraguita
La flor mas linda de mi querer
Abonada con la bendita, Nicaraguita,
Sangre de Diriangen.
Ay Nicaragua sos mas dulcita
Que la mielita de Tamagas.
Pero ahora que ya sos libre, Nicaraguita,
Yo te quiero mucho mas,
Pero ahora que ya sos libre, Nicaraguita,
Yo te quiero mucho mas,

Oh Nicaragua Nicaraguita
The most beautiful flower of my love
Fertilised with the blessed,
Nicaraguita,
Blood of Diriangen.
Oh Nicaragua you are even sweeter
Than the honey from Tamagas
But now that you are free
Nicaraguita
I love you much more!